Re: CMYK spaces used for document creation
Re: CMYK spaces used for document creation
- Subject: Re: CMYK spaces used for document creation
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 16:20:07 -0700
On Nov 1, 2009, at 4:08 PM, dpascale wrote:
Well, I can certainly not blame Adobe for people who do not read
their manuals!
He can, Adobe his is favorite whipping boy <g> Of course, RTFM is the
most sensible suggestion.
However, because of the importance of color standards, it would be a
nice suggestion to Adobe to add a small configuration screen (a
wizard) when installing asking (and suggesting) the most appropriate
color settings.
In the Color Settings, if you hover over any of the settings,
including the current CMYK profile (in the case of U.S. Web Coated
(SWOP) v2 ) it tells you all about what the target aims are for this
profile (“quality seps using US Inks with the following print
conditions...”).
Peter Nagy also mentioned many will supply work done in SWOP.
Even users printing to a Sheetfed press <g>. You either have users
that have a clue about the target printing conditions or they don’t.
Can you imagine if everyone printing to a Epson printer on Luster
paper just assumed all ink jet printers were Canon i9000 using Matt
paper? Its about that bad in the CMYK world for those that simply have
no idea how highly device dependent CMYK is and how they really need
to target the conversions to the printing process. There isn’t a thing
Adobe can do about this.
Any of the preset color settings that begin with North America set the
CMYK profile to U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2 unless you pick newsprint
which selects SNAP 2007 which kind of makes sense. There’s a number of
other settings for other countries which alter the CMYK profile. None
may be the correct profile of course.
When the optional brain probe for CS6 comes along, Photoshop will be
able to read your mind. Until then, users have to take responsibly for
setting the correct profile in the Color Settings or when using the
Convert to Profile command and unless they know what to select, any
default or other setting is a giant crap shoot.
Andrew Rodney
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