Ø Hi,
I have GMG colorproof 4.1 and Monaco Profiler Gold
4.7.1
I have made custom GMG mx4-prifiles with the
ECI-standard (measured from offset-prints),
and it works very well indeed.
Now I need to make icc-profiles for the customer
as well, and I hope I can use the same measured data.
I can export the data from GMG into a text-file,
but the patches seam to be in a different order in Monaco...
I would take the ring to Mordor, but I do not know
the way... so to speak.
Is Gandalf reading this, or will someone else help
me find the way?>
Ø
Using the GMG text file likely isn’t going to work.
GMG doesn’t actually measure the entire ECI chart because the 4D tables
require all variation of an overprint…for example, if there is a 3% cyan
patch on the ECI, but not a C3 M3 Y3, the software does not measure (or import)
the 3% cyan patch as target data. There are also duplicate patches on the ECI
that GMG will not measure. When importing a text file from say, MeasureTool,
the duplicate patches are averaged, but the patches without all overprint
combinations are dropped. So basically the GMG text file is about 187 patches
short of the ECI, and I don’t think Monaco would like that…and
yeah, the format is different to. You might be able to get around the format
issue with Excel, but what would you do about the missing patches?
A better solution in your case would have been to measure
the ECI charts with Gretag’s MeasureTool or perhaps Xrite’s
Colorport, save the data, then import this into GMG Colorproof and Monaco
Profiler to create your profiles, but this is hindsight, eh? ;-)
_______________
Michael Eddington
North American Color, Inc.
www.nac-mi.com