Re: Embed causes rich black – a mystery in several acts
Re: Embed causes rich black – a mystery in several acts
- Subject: Re: Embed causes rich black – a mystery in several acts
- From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:30:42 -0400 (EDT)
Matthew Kelly wrote:
>What happens here is no different than when you convert a grayscale
>image in Photoshop to CMYK. It will create four channels of color to
>create the black, unless you use a profile conversion for maximum
>black. In your file everything gets tagged with the profile,
>including the type. When it goes to the output devise, the RIP will
>convert everything to the tagged profile, thus the four channels of
>color.
"Convert everything to the tagged profile"? The file *already* lives in that profile. Why convert it to the color profile that it already lives in? In a "null" conversion nothing changes. Unless your equipment and software are built with peculiar notions of what constitutes a conversion.
Marco Ugolini
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