Unique situation when creating scanner profile
Unique situation when creating scanner profile
- Subject: Unique situation when creating scanner profile
- From: Allison Spooner <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:00:09 -0800 (PST)
Dear fellow colorsync-users,
I'm hoping that someone else has encountered this
issue and will be able to provide some insight or
solution as to how I can handle a situation at a
current client of mine. As I am used to utilizing
monitor profiles, scanner profiles and printer
profiles to ensure optimum color, I've run across a
situation where the scanner profile is becoming a fly
in the ointment.
My client scans a wide variety of drawings (ranging in
size, shape, quality, substrate, crayon, colored
pencil, etc..) submitted by children for placement in
children's books and catalogs. As I am implementing a
color workflow at this firm, we are finding that the
scanner profile is actually NOT providing a better
image, as they need to have all of the "white areas"
in the backgrounds of these images to be white (i.e.,
pure white without any dot at all) while maintaining
the color fidelity within the drawings (i.e., yellows
must be yellow, not lime-green, reds must be red, not
rust-colored, etc...). Most of these drawings and
pieces of art are done on anything from white laser
paper to white or off-white construction paper.
Because all of the printing and binding is done
in-house, they want to implement a complete color
workflow inclusive of scanner, monitor and printer
profiles (8 workstations, 4 scanners and 3 mid-volume
digital printers) to ensure color fidelity and
repeatability. The monitor and printer profiling has
gone quite smoothly, however the scanner profiles are
not producing good scans, as when we "apply" the
profile in photoshop, the white background is being
converted to a yellowish gray color as soon as we
apply the profile. Against my best judgement, I'm
almost ready to recommend that they just continue to
adjust every scan during the scanning process (which
is what they were doing prior to my arrival) to
accommodate this "need for a white background". Does
anyone have a suggestion for enabling good color with
scans, while ensuring that whites are "white"? I've
edited printer profiles in the past, but not scanner
profiles. Is this feasible? My next suggestion to them
would be to create an "action" in Photoshop that
adjusts the white point, but it goes "against my best
judgement" to not utilize a scanner profile within
this arena. They are currently using an Epson GT-15000
scanner and scan anywhere from 50 to 100 scans a day
(in a variety of sizes from 5"x7"to 10"x13"). Due to
the volume of images, it is just not feasible to spend
an exorbitant amount of time making all the
backgrounds white again after the profile has added
the color cast.
They were using Monaco EZ (which I did not recommend),
but have purchased Profile Maker 5 Publish and will
begin utilizing that software on Thursday. I'd like to
be proactive and see if there is anything else that
can be done to ensure that we can, indeed, use scanner
profiles within this environment, as I'm sure it will
help to generate more optimum output.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanking you all in advance,
Allison Spooner
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