It’s a credit to the original ICC vision, the passionate software writers and the crazy-brave pioneering users, that color management has been integrated under the hood of virtually all color workflows.
It’s hard to find a desktop printer or monitor that doesn’t produce pleasing color from Photoshop, regardless of the image source.
At the commercial level, standardized color spaces like FRACoL and gogra plus G7 calibration have largely eliminated the old problems we pre-press/ pressroom wallahs used to tackle.
But most of the improvement can be attributed to digital cameras and the astonishingly good image quality produced by today’s cell phone cameras.
Having said all that, there’s still a need for technical curiosity and ever more demanding problem identifiers like Refik. If we let go of the reins, economic corner-cutting will reduce everything to some low common denominator. Hopefully passionate photographers (which is what printing’s all about) will never stand for that.
Don Hutcheson
don(a)hutchcolor.com
908-500-0341
(Typos courtesy of iPhone's teeny-tiny keyboard and not-so tiny thumbs)