I am a printer and am trying to give our large corporate advice on Total
Colour Management
from what I have seen there are a lot of professional photographers here
and would welcome their views.
So far I have written :-
10 years ago colour accountability at key stages of the
workflow was simple and visible. Photographers supplied transparencies, repro
companies supplied Matchprints or Cromalyn proofs, clients approved the proof
and the printer matched the proof. At each stage the contract between the client
and supplier was seen to be fulfilled.
The digital workflow has no doubt made it easier for us
all to produce the work faster however we, especially as digital photography is
now the norm, have lost the colour accountability during the process.
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The problem we are all in is that we are working under such tight
lead times that photographers supplying hard copy proofs to design agencies just
may not be practical.
As images now seem to have a lot more nuetrals greys in, the
importance of the right profile to esnure that it is seperated correctly is
vital otherwise u get the pinkish greys
In the UK there is a move for images to be supplied in adobe rgb (1998)
or cmyk with ISO coated profile -
But still the question is how does your client know you have taken a good
picture if he cannot see it on a monitor (which u can never calibrate
correctly)
Peter Arnel