Re: Silly question department, Display Media White Point
Re: Silly question department, Display Media White Point
- Subject: Re: Silly question department, Display Media White Point
- From: G Mike Adams <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 10:02:32 -0600
On Feb 26, 2015, at 7:26 AM, Roger Breton wrote:
> SWOPv2 is long deprecated, it's not funny.
>
> The fact that many unknowledgeable users (whatever their number is) and a few less scrupulous RIP manufacturers (the better RIP manufacturers don't do this at all) continue using SWOPv2 as a source or destination color space is a testimony that color does not matter all that much anymore. As long as the thing does not look gray, right?
"Less scrupulous RIP manufacturers"?
A default has to be something. Why on earth would it be "unscrupulous" to set the expected incoming CMYK space in your RIP to be the default working CMYK space in virtually every brand and type of image creation software out there?
I just do not get that.
What would possibly be gained by making it something else?
As far as destination spaces go, I'm not aware of a single RIP manufacturer that does that -- uses SWOP as a destination color space, that is, and I can tell you such a RIP does not exist in large or grand format, and can't almost by definition.
By definition, every large or grand format RIP out there is set up to be able to point to and use generated media profiles for a particular device as destination color spaces, and there can be any number of them, because such is the nature of the beast. There simply isn't in any large or grand format RIP out there with a default you can select for outgoing space. You have to select a generated media. Since SWOP is just an ICC profile, and has no RIP-generated inking information, the only way to use it as an outgoing color space would be to build a media in the RIP, and then add SWOP to it as the ICC.
Absolutely no one does this.
Mike
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