On 12 Feb 2016, at 12:19, Paul Sherfield <paul@missinghorsecons.co.uk> wrote:
A lot of magazine printers are using ‘ink saving’ tools to reprocess files, which result in a very full black, and reduced TAC. So they should be able to print these type of profiles. I feel its better to achicve lower TAC and ink savings via a CMYK profile with these settings and GCR, rather then reprocessing the file in the CtP workflow.
Paul Are magazine printers re-separating the ad copy in the top fashion publications? That sounds risky to me… The images I’m working on are black & white anyhow. The “full black separation” gives me a similar linear K to the old Profilemaker Max K setting whereas i1 Profiler’s version of Max K doesn’t. But.. the overall density and the huge areas of absolutely flat black concern me… We’re used to seeing a lot of black, even in our most colourful images, as GMG’s ColorServer generates a lot more than you’d get from an ICC-based workflow — but the "full black" looks so different. I’m going to run some test proofs. Override the standard gain in our proofing profiles to try and simulate bad printing. See how the separations behave when things go a bit wrong. Still interested to hear if anybody is using “full black separation” for web jobs? -- Martin Orpen Idea Digital Imaging Ltd