Re: Who does the seperations?
Re: Who does the seperations?
- Subject: Re: Who does the seperations?
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 23:15:13 +0000
On 3 Jan 2007, at 22:26, Lee Blevins wrote:
To this day I click throught he seps and look at each layer.
It's my electronic light table.
But given that there isn't film anymore I don't know how anybody would
get that experience today.
My thoughts exactly Lee.
That was the reason for my response to Marco the other day - how
exactly are "many" photographers able to better the separations of an
experienced pre-press operator?
Our experience comes from handling film, making analogue contract
proofs from those films, studying wet proofs and progressives and
then looking at huge numbers of printed pages.
There's a possibility that you could do some fast-track learning
using an expensive RIP and ink jet engine and all the associated
control hardware and software... but how many people outside of pre-
press specialists have that kind of kit to experiment with?
If untrained and unskilled people are producing better separations
than pros then it's an indication that the print trade has lost
interest in quality. Claiming that it's an indicator of the success
of colour managed workflows and ICC profiles is missing the point -
IMHO ;-)
But we're both a bit longer in the tooth than most - found this
exchange from nearly a decade ago:
<http://tinyurl.com/yml233>
I still remember that "chocolate brown" job - it was an album cover
for Suede. We solved it by scanning in the wrapper from a packet of
Minstrel chocolates and the art director (Peter Saville) selected the
tones that he liked. Those were the days... when record companies
spent money on wet proofing before putting the job on press...
And I've still got that Colortron somewhere :-)
--
Martin Orpen
Idea Digital Imaging Ltd
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