Re: Who does the seperations?
Re: Who does the seperations?
- Subject: Re: Who does the seperations?
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:36:10 -0700
- Thread-topic: Who does the seperations?
On 1/4/07 10:16 AM, "Martin Orpen" wrote:
> But we've got different RIPs, spectros and software to help us achieve
> this. I don't see many people making that kind of investment.
If it's as important as dropping $5K on a DSLR, photographers will do it.
Considering the potential profit center for the business savvy photographer,
it's not a lot of money. Who's buying all those Epson 9800's and Canon 1ds
Mark II's? A full color lab wasn't cheap either. Moot point. Education is a
bigger issue but that's being addressed by a lot of good people.
> So you'd use ISO Web Coated for 4 colour black and white images in
> European magazines would you?
No one is suggesting anything other than using the correct output profile
for the output device behavior.
When I build output profiles for print, I build a family of GCR settings to
be used based on the image. I teach this as well and it's not at all
difficult for a photographer to pick up.
> And I suppose this PhotoKit Sharpener can magically sharpen an image
> so that it can be reproduced at any size from 25% to 150% of the
> original?
The magic is simply looking at the current file size and sharpening based on
the number of pixels and the output device specified. The product expects
the photographer to size the image for output. Again, it's pretty simple and
doesn't take a prepress master guru to figure out. Photographers have been
sizing images for output since they had access to pixels.
The entire process is pretty darn easy once described. The hardest part is
getting the damn output profile but again, anyone with the desire to profile
the device from their end, a process which is really unacceptably silly
consider the printer should have a profile, is far from rocket science.
Even better, printers and shops that actually conform to well established
print standards like TR001. In such a case, I'm quite happy to use the
superb profile Thomas Knoll built for Photoshop (although I'd like a few GCR
options). Even with that current limitation, it will still provide very
acceptable Seps.
Andrew Rodney
http://www.digitaldog.net/
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