Re: How to profile metallic paper
Re: How to profile metallic paper
- Subject: Re: How to profile metallic paper
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 20:52:34 +0000 (UTC)
Yes, "specialty media" can give you fits when it comes to this kind of
thing.
You may want to check the manufacturer's website for profiles already available though they'll be heavily dependent on what ink and / or print driver / RIP software was used to generate them.
If you're equipped to edit the profiling test results you
may have an avenue available but it'll be tedious at best & then the
other patches likely will be skewed too because of the reflectance.
My
choice when confronted with similar conditions is to pick the closest
available white-based substitute media (same brand, perhaps same coating
technology if you can get that out of the manufacturer) then swap that
profile for the one used with your reflective substrate.
Be
mindful the end result will be heavily influenced by reflections that
media presents when print is displayed as well as ambient environmental
lighting so even your most careful efforts won't really be comparable
to standardized review conditions.
You didn't mention whether
your workflow requires any post-print operations such as laminating or
coating. Those can have a dramatic effect on metallics, rendering a
reflective media a flat, dull (grey, in the case of chrome / silver)
substrate.
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