Hello all, Have other photo studios/scan labs/R&R departments been wrestling with the issue of match prints (or "match prints"), now that most of us are no longer sending out transparencies to publishers?
It's one thing to produce a match print on a high-end printer, using color management and calibrated everything when you have access to the original art or at least to a good transparency. It's an entirely different proposition to do so when you are assembling images for a catalog from a variety of sources, most of whom now simply send you a digital file and many of whom do not have the capability of producing anything close to a match print. Publishers generally insist on a match print, and the lack of an analog resource to compare can certainly cause problems in the color proofing process. When we only have the file to go by, our solution is to produce the best print we can, based on what we're seeing on our calibrated monitors and using the color profile we receive with the digital file. It's not ideal, but the best we can do, considering. One dilemma, though, is what to call these prints so that it's clear that they're not truly match prints that have a solid relationship to the original art. Or am I just splitting hairs? How are others handling this? Thanks for your input, Deb Wythe Deborah Wythe Head, Digital Collections and Services Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn, NY 11238 tel: 718 501 6311 fax: 718 501 6145 deborahwythe at hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Get a FREE Web site, company branded e-mail and more from Microsoft Office Live! http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/mcrssaub0050001411mrt/direct/01/
