Who does the seperations?
Who does the seperations?
- Subject: Who does the seperations?
- From: Ray Maxwell <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 07:18:44 -0800
Karsten Krüger wrote:
The style of naming Klaus Karcher suggests will work for closed
environment productions. But for industry wide standardization it is
too complicated and confusing. Just go and tell a casual ad agency
photoshopper to use 20 different ICC profiles to do his job and he
will kill you. He will just understand that the production will be on
coated or uncoated paper or is a newspaper add. Sometimes he even
does not know this and has to make assumptions.
All of this discussion of naming CMYK separation profiles brings up a
underling problem in our industry.
Let's go back to "the good ole days"...
A photographer shot a transparency.
A prepress house made separations (film and proof) knowing the press and
paper that was going to be used.
The printer printed the job and matched the proof.
The Ideallience has set a standard for shipping photographic files. It
is RGB not CMYK.
The only person who can do a good separation is the person who knows the
characteristics of the press, paper, and ink.
So I ask...Should the photographer make a separation?
When did it become the photographer's job to do separations?
Who has all the information to do a top notch separation? Is it the
photorgrapher or the printer?
What happened to the prepress house and their highly skilled scanner
operators and separators?
What are your thoughts?
Ray Maxwell
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