Re: Color management in a CMYK world
Re: Color management in a CMYK world
- Subject: Re: Color management in a CMYK world
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:45:37 -0700
- Thread-topic: Color management in a CMYK world
Title: Re: Color management in a CMYK world
On 3/6/07 7:30 PM, "Lorenzo Ridolfi" wrote:
The big problem I'm facing is to deal with "editing in CMYK" habit. They
accept to build profiles for their printers but they insist in editing
only in CMYK.
OK, so the files are bigger and the gamut is set for the output but I don’t see that as being that bad. If they are never going to reproposes the files, so be it. And if they do, they will soon find that they will edit in RGB.
I know that there's no "CMYK working space" and dealing with CMYK to
CMYK conversions is asking for trouble.
Depends on your definition of working space. CMYK is a working space if you define one as an editing space. Its not Quasi-Device Independent and its somewhat limited if you need to output the files to many devices.
The question is which CMYK
profile should the print guys use when editing the files?
The one based on the single output device.
The printer
profile? It seems very odd to me... They receive untagged CMYK files
from their customer (actually, they ASK for untagged CMYK files), so the
customer does the separations.
Lots of people do and its BAD! But that’s an educational process. Bad enough getting CMYK for a device you’re not intending to send the data to. But untagged CMYK is much worse. The old Fraser CMYK mystery meat. Not at all tasty.
Andrew Rodney
http://www.digitaldog.net/
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