Re: RGB - CMYK, addendum
Re: RGB - CMYK, addendum
- Subject: Re: RGB - CMYK, addendum
- From: "Richard Frederickson [Contr]" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:37:46 -0500
Title: Re: RGB - CMYK, addendum
Sorry, I forgot to mention that I'm typically printing in the US
where printers are at least aware of the SWOP standard. This may
not be the case in your market--talk to your printer, they may even
have a press profile they can send you (it does happen occasionally;
not often, but occasionally).
Kindest regards,
Richard
Traditionally, printers speak CMYK and
their workflows developed around that.
>A Colour Management workflow is all
about removing all the things that
go wrong between the client brief, the
graphic designer, the photographer, the hardcopy proof prints, soft
proofs and whatever else......
One of the things that "do go wrong"
is RIPs that don't interpret embedded profiles, leading printers to
ignore them. In all the seminars and workshops I've attended, they
have all said do not include profiles with CMYK images. And when you
think about it, it does make sense since once it is in CMYK its in the
device colorspace and you would not want to edit an image in that
space anyway.
I work in an environment where we have no
access to the final print house and they usually insist on
CMYK
files. We've had pretty reliable success
previewing our RGB images in SWOP and adjusting them accordingly; then
use Convert to Profile to generate the deliverable CMYK file. It's not
ideal, but it works.
Interestingly, with more online
publishing going on, many of our publishers are asking for RGB images.
Which begs the question--who is going to take more care in performing
the RGB to CMYK conversion, me or someone with no vested interest in
the outcome?
Just one of the guys in the
trenches,
Richard
Richard
Frederickson [Contractor]
Senior Technical
Specialist
Scientific
Publications, Graphics & Media (SPGM)
SAIC-Frederick,
Inc.
National Cancer
Institute at Frederick
Frederick, MD
21702-1201
(301)
846-1546
Visit us at
http://web.ncifcrf.gov/spgm
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