Color management Macintosh OSX and PC Windows
Color management Macintosh OSX and PC Windows
- Subject: Color management Macintosh OSX and PC Windows
- From: "Tim Brown" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:26:42 -0700
- Thread-topic: Color management Macintosh OSX and PC Windows
Reply to abbreviated post below:
Does anyone know of any studies conducted regarding prepress/color
management on Mac vs. PC? With data to back it up.
I need to know what would happen to our color management if they came in
and
pulled our Macs and replaced them with PCs.
Thanks,
Steve Miller
Norwood Publishing
REPLY:
I have done a partial evaluation a couple of years ago, and the answer
is...it depends.
It depends on the color engine that you use (make sure you have the same
engine in both systems for an exact replication -- I never got that
far). I did some testing of this and found that printing and reading
tc9.18 from both printing systems got me a deltaE94 of about 1.2 on
smooth gloss paper. Without that control variable, I should have around
0.25.
It depends on your rendering intent (which gives the color engine the
instructions on how to convert from one color space to another. If you
use absolute intent, you will "probably" have the least amount of
difference.
It depends on all the software that you use. If you have to change RIPS
and ICC profiling tools to change from 1 to the other, you will have
differences.
It depends on whether your users can use both systems -- this one killed
it for me. My users can't figure out how to log in on a PC or remember
to save their work; retraining folks from 20 years of Mac-habits seemed
to be the biggest obstacle.
My opinion is that it can be done, but will take some work to evaluate,
and some work to retrain the users. Hopefully, yours can be taught!
Tim Brown
Senior Engineer
The Thomas Kinkade Company
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