Re: Colorsync-users Digest, Vol 2, Issue 188
Re: Colorsync-users Digest, Vol 2, Issue 188
- Subject: Re: Colorsync-users Digest, Vol 2, Issue 188
- From: Jörgen Jansson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 23:35:46 +1000
Hi Marq,
I managed a EDOX4 Rip driving one of our CLC's a couple of years back,
with quite a bit of success. But it certainly has it's little quirks.
It is ICC aware, to a degree. You can use the Profile Manager to set up
predefined colour flows in the RIP, and then access these through the
print dialogue in the program you're printing from. One important thing
to realise is that EDOX doesn't recognise embedded profiles! Instead
you have to specify ONE source profile for incoming RGB and ONE for
CMYK data. In the case of RGB data you also have the option to specify
a simulation profile. You can also choose rendering intents at each
separate stage.
So you can use the colour management in edox IF you are sending data
that are harmonised to one working space (actually two, one for CMYK
and one for RGB), and that working space is the same as what you
specified in Profile Manager.
You can make up to a 100 different queues for different workflows and
hope that the users remember when to use which. Oh yeah, you can set
one of them as the standard setting, that gets used on all jobs unless
otherwise specified at print time. You can also set up hotfolders for
different settings, which kinda worked for us.
Another thing to watch out for is that it won't colour manage EPS
files. And don't forget to switch the switch from Direct CMYK/RGB to
Use CMYK/RGB profile if you want to use the profiles. And you need a
good profile for your CLC as well, one with maximum GCR worked well for
us.
It's probably easier to manage the colour in the applications, but it
CAN be done on the RIP. Just watch out for a lot of pitfalls. Also, you
need to recalibrate often, the CLC's drift a lot. Sometimes a couple of
times a day at our place, depending on weather....
Let me know if you want more details. Also, I haven't used it for a
couple of years, so all this could obviously have changed since then...
Best Regards
Jorgen
Marq wrote:
Ken:
Helps immensely - thanks for sharing.
I'll put it on the RIP for all to access as a Preset within the Adobe
apps.
Q
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