Re: Who does the separations?
Re: Who does the separations?
- Subject: Re: Who does the separations?
- From: email@hidden (Lee Blevins)
- Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 18:39:45 -0500
> I'm sure your business is safe if you put out good work at a price the
> customers like, but if you are suggesting that all RGB to CMYK
> conversions should be carried out by a shop like yours I suggest that is
> totally unrealistic.
Richard,
I completely apologize if my mail client pointed a response to you that
was not intended. I have far less experience with reading mailing lists
and posting to them than I have with color separating.
Let me clarify my position.
I am not against anybody making a separation and sending to a printer.
What does rattle my cage a little is when somebody submits a CMYK image
to a printer and when it's proofed at the printer and it doesn't match
the submitted proof, that somehow the idea emerges that it's a bunch of
hooligans at the printshop that don't know what their doing.
Trust me on this, printers spend of lot of money on their proofing
systems and sweat bulltets to get them to match their press. They don't
want to be chasing color at the press trying to match a proof that is
off. This applies to just about every major color printer I've come in
contact with.
So when the file is proofed at the printer, their proof rules.
Now if you've done your homework and made an image that works on their
system all is well.
But if you've made a SWOP, and we know the W stands for Web, proof and
submitted it to a commercial sheetfed printer you can't claim they did
something wrong.
You might have an argument if you submitted it to a publication web and
it was drastically different on their proofing system.
But to correct myself, I'm sure there are many talented and intelligent
photographers such as yourself who are capable of making good
separations that will run without problems.
For many years separations were made at tradeshops and sent to printers
and the business of printing got done.
What you are saying isn't really any different than that old way of
doing business. You make the file, you submit it with the proof and it
gets printed.
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