Re: Newcomer to Color management with Questions.
Re: Newcomer to Color management with Questions.
- Subject: Re: Newcomer to Color management with Questions.
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:31:15 -0500
I would at least start with the gregtag Eye-One or basICColor squid
package to simply profile the displays.
That would make you well ahead of 99% of advertising agencies out
there. As a photographer I find it frustrating when AD's complain
about color or density, only to discover that they have aged monitors
that have never been profiled, with windows and florescent lights
reflecting in them. On one occasion an AD complaining that my images
were dark had an enlightening experience by wiping off the dirt that
had accumulated on his very old CRT display.
I dont know the xerox printer, but suspect it would be difficult to
color manage !
I would think it's a laser printer and it may be fast, but color is not
good nor is it consistent.
The slower jet-ink printers are much better to output good color prints
and they are not as slow as the 3000 now, but for an agency when you
ned to out put 64 comps on the same ad presentation they may not be
practical. Others may be able to suggest a fast printer or if the Xerox
can be profiled.
Quark is not good at color management. Your best bet is to convert the
files in Photoshop if going to 4/color.
Jet-ink printers usually want RGB files. The Xerox printer probably has
a postscript rip, but does it have provisions for interacting with ICC
profiles ? If not you can convert the files to the ICC profile in
Photoshop and swap with the files in quark, or save to a eps file then
print through PS. This is more work that one would like. A question
still remains if the Xerox is stable enough to allow profiling.
As a photographer I have great success with profiling my monitors and
printing to one of the Epson printers, 9600, that uses Ultrachrome Ink
with ImagePrint Rip, but with text and postscript files Colorbyte Rip
should work better. This has proven to be very predictable and even
produces a good " 1st proof" for 4/color repro.
The full color management profiling package for printing is quite work
intensive. One alternative is to have a third party produce the profile
for you. F.ex. with ImagePrint I send them a print and download the
profile and it has worked very well. The driver for most printers is
usually not up to the job of getting quality prints, for that you need
a rip.
Hope this helps.
Ulf Skogsbergh
On Wednesday, March 30, 2005, at 02:01 PM, Elena Songer wrote:
I would welcome any opinions on how to start setting up my color
managment.
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