Re: CMYK spaces used for document creation
Re: CMYK spaces used for document creation
- Subject: Re: CMYK spaces used for document creation
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 23:35:12 +0000
On 1 Nov 2009, at 23:08, dpascale wrote:
Agreed, this is why I asked the question. It seems that for larger
companies and for those interacting with knowledgeable printers, the
defaults get switched to the latest configuration, irrelevant of
what Adobe suggests. For the others that read the manual, they
likely select the proper regional defaults. Finally, for the last
tier, which do not read the manuals and/or do not have the knowledge
to control color management, a simple color-setting wizard could help.
A "simple color-setting wizard" is an oxymoron.
Using the wizard would require a degree of knowledge and purpose which
is completely lacking in the industry :(
Peter Nagy also mentioned many will supply work done in SWOP. The
default defaults (double-word intended) would explain this. On the
positive side, even if not ideal and not universally used, this is a
well characterized space. This is better than non-tagged CMYK.
Well characterized?
I always thought that SWOP was whatever 3 printers in a room decided
was good enough!
In Europe SWOP has to be viewed the same way as non-tagged CMYK. It is
an indicator, a big warning bell, that your client hasn't got a clue
about colour.
If you get delivered untagged CMYK then you may as well assign SWOP
first because it's more than likely that the client was viewing the
files that way in Photoshop -- so the two are interchangeable.
--
Martin Orpen
Idea Digital Imaging Ltd
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