Re: profiles and pantone colors
Re: profiles and pantone colors
- Subject: Re: profiles and pantone colors
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 13:10:48 -0400
> To my knowledge, without a professional RIP it's not possible to separate
> spot colors from all other colors in a file for the purpose of printing an
> accurate press proof -- though one can still produce reasonably good proofs
> for 4-color process presses, if certain precautions are observed.
One workaround I often resort to, in Illustrator at least, it to use some
RGB space for coding the Lab colorimetry of PANTONE colors. That way, CMYK
images remained managed optimally on the way to the printer profile while
RGB colors, really a transposition of PANTONE Lab colors to an RGB color
space of my choice, become managed, as best as they can in RGB, on their way
to the printer profile too. Only problem is that, in Illustrator at least,
one cannot specify a separate intent for RGB colors different from CMYK
colors. In InDesign v2+, where this limitation does not exist, managing
PANTONE colors colorimetrically is a cinch because of direct support for Lab
mode.
Roger Breton | Laval, Canada | email@hidden
http://pages.infinit.net/graxx
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