Re: UCR/GCR revisited
Re: UCR/GCR revisited
- Subject: Re: UCR/GCR revisited
- From: Bob Marchant <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:32:37 +0100
Paul wrote
It is a story of getting high quality images by using ICC color
management
tools in a "non standard" printing condition by any cost.
This let some people come to the conclusion that printing to standards
results in moderate quality.
Hi Paul.
Although I fully agree about your concern re standards, I'm not sure
about the "by any cost " reference regarding the job in question. We
did a similar exercise for a photographer's yearbook some years ago
with a printing company that said that they ran a stable press. .
We produced a set of profiles with varying GCR and let the
photographers choose the most apt profile and do their own CMYK
conversions ( high GCR for neutral images etc ) . The book ran for
years without any real issues , and the same model was used for a
series of awards books printed by the same company. It wasn't an
overly complicated project.
Can you imagine digital photography without sRGB?
Not for amateurs maybe , but for professionals it doesn't have to
be imagined as it exists ( even though I do have to admit that some
'professional ' camera manufactures have often thought otherwise ! )
Will the ISO standard printing conditions get accepted or
will the "house-standards" prevail?
Let's hope that the two eventually become the same
ICC color management cannot survive without standards.
It would help if we all agreed on best practice which of course
inevitably involves agreed standards for file exchange and repro .
However if we are to excel in any part of the industry , we have to
be able to work creatively within those standards, and be prepared to
move on as the technology and quality levels improve .
But even without industry wide standards, I'd still use ICC
profiling for the consistency and creative resource it provides
within our own workflow.
As to having a profile editor in Photoshop in order to edit images
individually ,for me it would be a similar process to trying to
steer a car by adjusting the track rods or tyre pressures rather than
using the steering wheel.
As a photographer , the profile is the window on the press ,
Photoshop is the software for editing the images using that window.
It is of course a different matter if we were editing camera
profiles for a 'creative' output , but that's probably a subject for
another thread.
Regards,
Bob Marchant
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