Re: Can this be done?
Re: Can this be done?
- Subject: Re: Can this be done?
- From: Todd Shirley <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:50:21 -0400
Hi David
First, I'd agree with Rolf that "you can't get there from here". Your
old profile doesn't actually represent how your old printer printed.
You said: "there was still an effect going on that skewed my profile",
which I read to mean that your prints came out differently (warmer)
than you would have expected. So the old profile represents how the
printer SHOULD have printed, but not what was actually happening. In
order to simulate the look of that printer, you need to print patches
through that old workflow and create a profile from that. Then you
will probably get better results out of "simulation mode"
On Aug 25, 2008, at 11:22 PM, David Wollmann wrote:
My files are in Adobe RGB.
I do have ColorThink Pro and it makes Device Links, but I never have.
What do you mean by,
if you have a means of implementing it.
Is a Device Link something the RIP must support too?
There is no way to use a device link profile in Photoshop, so indeed
your RIP would have to support it. Device link profiles are for going
from CMYK to CMYK, so if you are sending RGB data to the RIP, you
probably can't use one. Your RIP would have to support it in such a
way that first it converts from RGB to CMYK using your new profile,
then it converts again (using the device link) from CMYK to CMYK to
add the cast. Of course this only works if you have an accurate
profile to use as a destination, and as discussed above it doesn't
sound like you do.
If you can't actually profile the old printing condition, your best
bet would be to come up with a color correction that you can run as an
action in Photoshop. Then you could make a droplet and just drop your
old files on the droplet and it would spit out "corrected" files that
you could send through your new workflow. This would obviously require
a few rounds of trial and error to get it right, but once you nailed
it it could be pretty automated.
-Todd Shirley
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