Re: Mini-rant on the surreal world of "prepress"
Re: Mini-rant on the surreal world of "prepress"
- Subject: Re: Mini-rant on the surreal world of "prepress"
- From: edmund ronald <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:41:14 +0200
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Marco Ugolini <email@hidden> wrote:
> Incidentally, a press can be profiled without necessarily being
> G7-certified, and also if it is run according to a a host of very unique
> parameters, like those used at VANFU in Japan for the presses on which Bill
> Atkinson printed "Within The Stone".
Obviously anything can be profiled, provided it is stable. And the
more unique it is the more useful profiling it. In fact, one might
argue that any standard "certification" or aimpoint for press will be
extremely sub-optimal in gamut because a wide category of presses
should be able to achieve this certification.
> But how do you do that when no one on the printer/prepress side is able or
> willing to describe the expected print specifications?
>
This is the useful thing about external specs and standards: clients
can state that they expect this behavior to be achieved, or they take
their business elsewhere, and management can hear this desire and
enforce it internally, without the people manning the presses being
allowed to argue too long about it.
Let me add that I believe ICC color management at the working level is
a semi-failure because it is a *process* that needs to be applied
rather than automatic. people have to compute profiles, apply them,
measure their equipment etc and it is a pain. Specs for press that
have to be met are just that, specs, and I believe in many countries
they are successful. The results work, the process is a pain.
> Marco Ugolini
>
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