Re: Vigilant Color Quality
Re: Vigilant Color Quality
- Subject: Re: Vigilant Color Quality
- From: Mike Strickler <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:28:03 -0700
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:39:18 -0400
From: Kevin Muldoon <email@hidden>
Subject: Vigilant color quality
To: email@hidden
Message-ID: <email@hidden>
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I believe most fine art printers would say the entire goal of fine
art printing is to replicate the original as close as technologically
possible, and that includes the digital file. Skilled fine art
printers are able to maintain a color consistency that lithographic
presses could only envy. The use of color targets together with
spectrophotometery is essential to consistency, not to mention the
human eye.
I should have clarified the context of my remark below, which was a
question about the printing of original photographic works of art--or
at least that was what I understood. In that case the source material
is, as Ansel Adams once remarked, the "score" and the print the
"performance." There are of course overlapping concerns and skills,
but the emphases are different.
I absolutely agree that the reproduction of paintings or prints is
much like proofing, though fraught with complexities that do not
allow the degree of accuracy with which we can simulate a press
sheet. In this case consistency is of course important even when
colorimetric matches to the original will be approximate. Actually,
it wold be nice to hear more from members who are engaged in this
specialty; it's really a tricky craft!
When color drifts it's either because a few nozzels dropped out, a
dramatic change in humidity, the ink went past shelf life or coating
issues of paper. Correcting physical issues or reprofiling is the fix.
Yes.
On Oct 16, 2007, at 3:04 PM, email@hidden
wrote:
The situation for "fine-art" printing involves somewhat somewhat
different assumptions. First, the fine art print is really the
primary image, not an attempt to exactly replicate the film or
digital original.
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