Re: Who does the seperations?
Re: Who does the seperations?
- Subject: Re: Who does the seperations?
- From: Karsten Krüger <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 09:57:48 +0100
Am 30.12.2006 um 16:18 schrieb Ray Maxwell:
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 photographer or the printer?
What happened to the prepress house and their highly skilled
scanner operators and separators?
What are your thoughts?
Glad you asked :-)
The problem is, that there is **no** digital transparency film. The
consequence: there is no real world reference on how the picture
should look like. And the prepress house has no clue on what do do
with the image....
When a photographer delivers RGB, there will be an unavoidable
difference in print. When the photographer delivers a standard CMYK -
like ISOcoated - the differences between display and print are a lot
smaller (in a calibrated environment).
Camera RAW workflow software like Capture One do a great job in
separation today when setup correctly. Installing a workflow based on
a new ICC profile is a matter of 2 minutes. Rendering an image from
RAW directly into that color space a mouse click.
So all comes down again to good communication and education.
Karsten
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