Re: X-Rite ColorMunki experience
Re: X-Rite ColorMunki experience
- Subject: Re: X-Rite ColorMunki experience
- From: John W Lund <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 11:54:17 -0700
Hello,
First, I want to offer a big thank you, to both Tom Lianza and Larry Spevak,
for interesting, useful & timely contributions to this thread.
As someone having successfully used the ColorBurst RIP for years, for
proofing & for fine art printing as well, I wanted to offer a bit of a
contrary observation about the statement referenced below. It's been my
experience that some of Adobe's more ambitious product features (e.g.,
building files combining tints of spot colors with transparent elements) are
frequently unprintable, whether run through RGB printer drivers, various
RIPs - even "printing" to older versions of Adobe's own pdf format.
I assume this is related to the fact that Postscript just doesn't support
things like transparency, so the applications must be performing some sort
of coding contortions 'behind the scenes' to get these features to work.
Even with the ColorBurst RIP, I find it necessary to have the application
(say, Illustrator) handle flattening, and converting all spot colors to
process prior to sending the print job to the RIP. (CB tech support
recommends printing to pdf first) Whatever the issues, I wish that I could
get the RIP to handle this instead - to retain Xproof's better spot color
simulation, for example.
Thinking about this makes me wonder if Mr. Lianza's complaint about color
managed printing being broken is, if anything, optimistic. After all, even
the various Adobe apps - PS, AI, ID & Acrobat - don't seem to share a common
print architecture. They don't even share the same print UI (or color
management UI, for that matter!). Makes the prospect for OS's & printer
manufacturer's coming up with a coherent approach seem even less likely (I
hope I'm wrong)...
Regards,
John Lund
JWL Images
Emeryville, CA
ColorBurst Systems <email@hidden> wrote (in part):
...<big snip>...
> When Applications attempt to perform color management they can flatten
> elements (losing transparencies), convert Pantones to Process without the
> benefit of starting from a single Lab reference. Therefore, two Pantones of
> the same color - from different sources like an embedded EPS and a Document
> Spot Color will not print the same, and the list goes on, and on, and on.
>
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