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: Todd Shirley <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:36:39 -0500
On Jan 9, 2008, at 6:40 PM, Marco Ugolini wrote:
And, if they are cognizant of your intentions to use color-managed
techniques, why would they then pair up with a prepress house that
sabotages
their intended efforts and would make the whole process fail?
You talk to the prepress people, don't you?
On Jan 9, 2008, at 6:41 PM, Marco Ugolini wrote:
Before you customize the GCR in the file, you must know that both
the color
space and the the separation are correct for the intended output.
But how do
you know the correct color space and kind of separation for the
intended
output if you leave it to the prepress people to take your color
numbers and
apply them in unknown ways to the output, which could include
reseparation
as well, no matter whether your files are tagged or not?
Hi Marco
I think there is still some confusion about the "safe CMYK" workflow
in InDesign. First off - it works as advertised. It does not change
CMYK numbers of CMYK elements whether they are native or imported,
whether they have profiles embedded or not. So if the the person
outputting your files is using the safe CMYK settings, then you are
NOT "leaving it to the prepress people to take your color numbers and
apply them in unknown ways to the output, which could include
reseparation as well" This is exactly what safe CMYK is meant to
prevent.
For many printers, the prepress people outputting from InDesign are
right there in their own prepress department, and they don't want
their operators, (the employees who are making PostScript files or
PDFs out of InDesign) to have to make any decisions about color
transforms. Usually that decision is made before the file gets to the
operator, so they don't want a workflow where it is possible for the
operator to change CMYK values.
I don't think it really has much to do with weather a shop is color
management savvy or not - Its just that many people don't want color
management happening at the moment someone hits "print" in InDesign.
-Todd Shirley
Urban Studio
New York, NY
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