You are on the right track to bring all the files into your color managed workflow, make any adjustments needed on your monitors and then produce a guide print for the publisher.
To many traditional printers, "match print" meant matched to the particular press, inkset and paper being used. Today it is really just a guide. Howard Brainen Digital Imaging Consultant TWO CAT DIGITAL INC. 14719 Catalina Street San Leandro, CA 94577 USA 510-940-2670 x201 www.twocatdigital.com/consulting.html blog: www.digitalenabler.blogspot.com > -----Original Message----- > From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On > Behalf Of Deborah Wythe > Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 6:36 AM > To: mcn-l at mcn.edu > Subject: [MCN-L] DM SIG: match prints from digital files > > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the > Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l
