Re: Dumb question for european prepress specialists: Which profile?
Re: Dumb question for european prepress specialists: Which profile?
- Subject: Re: Dumb question for european prepress specialists: Which profile?
- From: Rolf Gierling <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 12:58:55 +0100
Hi,
the discussion reveals a big issue the printing industry has, and
this issue is reflected in this list as well:
A group of colormanagement "experts" on one hand and a group
of "non-experts" on the other hand.
In february this year I made a poll.
I chose 20 german print-houses offering their work via internet.
The print-houses were chosen out of recommendations of advertising
agencies and graphic artists.
The questions I confrontated them with were:
1) In which standard should I deliver my files? Do you have an
ICC-profile
you recommend?
2) May the PDF-files I send to you have embedded fonts or not?
For me, these are two simple questions to proof if "the other side" is
able
to help me getting best results or not.
2 print-houses didn't even answer. 5 anwered with ISOcoated or sent it
to me.
3 said Euroskala, the rest couldn't say.
Quote: "We don't have any standard, either for CMYK nor for the PDF"
The question about the PDF or the embedded fonts was answered the same
way.
3 printing-houses gave me extensive descriptions how to produce my PDF,
supplied
Acrobat settings or offered a proof and data-check.
The rest could not say.
This poll is in no way to understand as a general criticism of
printing-houses.
It reflects that colormanagement and understanding or setting up a
workflow is
still, after years of pushing it to a hype, an expert theme and isn't
easy
enough for non-experts that may never have learned it.
Rolf
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Consulting - Development - Distribution
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52064 Aachen
Germany
Tel. +49 (0) 2 41 / 4 01 25 79
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2nd Edition August 2004
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