Re: Color shift in PhotoShop 8
Re: Color shift in PhotoShop 8
- Subject: Re: Color shift in PhotoShop 8
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:11:04 -0400
> But what if the client has carefully crafted the separations to optimize the
> black channel? Convert, and bingo! all that work is trashed.
Rick, just out of curiosity, do you know a lot of you clients that
carefullly craft their black printer?
> And what if there is no embedded profile? (Many people suggest not embedding a
> profile to avoid unwanted conversions.) Will you still convert, and if so,
> from WHAT assumed source profile?
I assume US WebCoated SWOP v2 as the implicit Source unless instructed
otherwise.
> It would seem as though at least if you're trying to second-guess the total
> ink limit, you should use a Device Link profile to retain the black plate.
Fair.
> How would you suggest a client communicate that he/she does NOT want this to
> happen, assuming they may not expect their files to be converted?
How about supplying files in PDF/X1a? That's plenty specific to me.
> I would hope you'd be proactively supplying every client with your profile and
> telling them to use it to create their CMYK.
Aha! That's a big responsibility. That's assuming that us, the printers, can
always hist right on our own profiles. What's your own hitting rate like?
> Not that that will address the
> issues of different images requiring different black generation, unless you're
> supplying a suite of profiles.
And then it gets a little more confusing. I know. Nothing is perfect.
> Rick Gordon
Roger Breton | Laval, Canada | email@hidden
http://pages.infinit.net/graxx
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