RE: Multi-color ICC profiles
RE: Multi-color ICC profiles
- Subject: RE: Multi-color ICC profiles
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 12:34:40 -0500
Perhaps I need to add a bit of context to my original post...
You see, I may land a job with a printer who routinely prints packaging on an 8 color Roland offset press.
As you may know, packaging is typically printed on, say, 20pts recycled board or SBS, using 50" and 56" wide 6 colors presses, with mostly CMYK and two spot inks.
This particular printer claim they try to avoid printing with 6 colors to print instead with 7 colors, CMYK + RGB, for economic reasons. They say they developed a custom multi-color profile which they supply to clients who want to directly convert their artwork to their press in Photoshop. They handle the rest of their clients's jobs internally through their Artios system.
What's interesting, to me, is that, from a production efficiency standpoint, by converting most jobs to this 7 color printing scheme, they effectively avoid wash-ups, reduce custom inks inventory and considerably reduce make-readies since they minimize the number of printing sequence change and can get a better utilization of press time overall.
That's the context.
I think they have an Artios kind of prepress system that possibly handles all their color management which I'm not familiar with.
Their whole workflow raise a number of interesting points I'd like to investigate, with the limited tools I have at my disposal.
I want to thank you all for your invaluable comments, so far.
Best regards / Roger
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