RE: rgb to cmyk conversions
RE: rgb to cmyk conversions
- Subject: RE: rgb to cmyk conversions
- From: "Peter Leyland" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:09:09 -0000
- Thread-topic: rgb to cmyk conversions
Liz
My twopenneth.
Unless everyone is fully on board with colour management it is going to
be a far better bet to present the printer with CMYK files and simply
concentrate on your own workflow and whatever else it takes to get a
good final print job! You won't find many (printers) that have a colour
managed environment, or to be correct a workflow that is essentially the
same as yours. If it really is that important to you and you might even
need to ask yourself why it is, so important, then you'll have to shop
around. There is an element of 'the tail wagging the dog' at this point
in time and as far as I am concerned the jury is still out as to the
benefits of a colour managed RGB workflow when the final destination is
litho print. If it is assumed that the printer knows nothing about
colour management that doesn't necessarily mean that he is either a bad
printer or that he will do a rubbish job of your work. Even if he does
then, in all probability, it still won't be his fault just because he
doesn't know one end of an EyeOne from the other. Most of us would agree
that colour management is far from being a no brainer and perhaps that
gives a clue as to the evangelistic nature of some that would impose
such on everybody else. At the risk of being corrected (not colour
corrected I hope) it remains true that even in a colour managed workflow
you still need to be aware of the destination profile (litho press).
That being the case why should anybody actually need to complicate the
issue by handing off an RGB file to the printer (tagged or otherwise)?
Why not simply give the poor chap a file that works - for both of you!
Peter
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>> Step 5, Prepare the printer's file.
>> Flatten your image.
>> Save as... WITHOUT the embedded profile to the format specified by
>> your printer.
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>
>I disagree wholeheartedly. TAG THE FILES.
>
>Since all of Adobe's software offerings require a source profile
>(expressed or assumed), doesn't it make sense to supply the correct
>one?
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Read this interesting article by Dan Margulis commenting on exactly this
question:
http://tinyurl.com/cywmo
(I don't know what to think.)
Good sound commonsense article - but I'd say that anyway wouldn't I?
Peter.
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