Re: Colorimetric Advantage of ColorBurst Overdrive ??
Re: Colorimetric Advantage of ColorBurst Overdrive ??
- Subject: Re: Colorimetric Advantage of ColorBurst Overdrive ??
- From: Terence Wyse <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 21:56:00 -0400
Have you tried the demo?
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> On Jul 11, 2016, at 7:39 PM, Rick Gordon <email@hidden> wrote:
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> We used to use ColorBurst X-Proof with our old Epson SP 4800 for CMYK proofing, but it is not supported on our new SP 4900.
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> I see that the Overdrive RIP works through the Epson printer drivers, to which it passes RGB data. For an InDesign workflow, that means generating CMYK PDFs, which it converts internally to RGB data for the Epson driver.
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> So I'm wondering if, without its also having any controls for ink limiting or linearization, if there could really be any advantage compared to sending the same PDFs direct to the Epson, using Acrobat Color Management.
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> The potential areas of difference that I can see might be:
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> * A different CMYK conversion. I don't know what engine Overdrive uses to convert CMYK to RGB.
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> * A potentially different RGB color space that is passed to the driver, though since I believe the Epson driver is optimized for either Adobe RGB or sRGB input, that it would be Adobe RGB.
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> But what else? Is there really any need at all to spend $795 for that?
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> Thanks in advance for any clarification.
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> Rick Gordon
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