RE: "Safe CMYK" workflows [was: Misleading Adobe Common Color Architecture]
RE: "Safe CMYK" workflows [was: Misleading Adobe Common Color Architecture]
- Subject: RE: "Safe CMYK" workflows [was: Misleading Adobe Common Color Architecture]
- From: Rick Gordon <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 11:47:45 -0800
A good example of why I would want the "safe CMYK workflow" is because I typically use multiple profiles generated from the same data, but differing in GCR. If my default CMYK working space is set for the Light GCR version, I don't want images which are tagged with the Heavy GCR version to be reseparated, and I don't want to go through the subterfuge of assigning the default profile to avoid reseparation.
Rick Gordon
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On 1/9/08 at 12:24 AM -0800, Marco Ugolini wrote in a message entitled
"Re: "Safe CMYK" workflows [was: Misleading Adobe Common Col":
>If there are conversions happening without your consent (and I'm not clear what those would be), they would probably happen whether or not you honor the embedded profiles. If it's a matter of a buggy application, it's one thing. But if the unwanted conversions happen because one is not digging deep enough into the inner workings of InDesign, then it would be a matter of filling in the gap's in one's knowledge.
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>As for the unwanted conversions downstream, that depends on whether the vendors are savvy and cooperative or antagonistic and stubborn. In the latter instance, the only thing one can do (even someone who would rather use color-managed workflows) is guess at the output color space and create a situation where damage is minimized. That could mean picking the SWOP v2 profile as the target space, and sending image files that have been converted to it -- leaving all images untagged, though properly converted. That way one has a chance in North-American prepress hell of not seeing *horrible* results, just perhaps.
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