on 18/11/02 11:08 am, Malcolm Pasley at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Hi List. With Europe Prepress defaults set in InDesign2 and PS7 can anybody
>> tell me why the monitor images would differ so wildly when side by side on
>> one monitor. Its a grayscale image from Photoshop that is brought into
>> InDesign. It even prints differently from both applications using a 1290
>> with Fotonic inks and Lyson's profile. I keep looking for different settings
>> in each colour settings box but I can't find any.
>
> Yep. This is because InDesign applies no colour management to greyscale images
> whatsoever while Photoshop does. This is one of those horrible inconsistencies
> that one only finds out about when it jumps up and bites you, since it doesn't
> make any sense for two applications, which are touted as working so well
> together, to actually behave quite differently.
I have used InDesign in the past when it was version 1.0 but not the new
version 2.0. Could the problem be that it RIPs the grayscale images as CMYK
and then sends the info to the deskjet as CMYK which is then converted by
the driver to RGB by the printer before it's printed? That may explain why
the files print differently from the two apps. I suspect, is because it's
being printing as a grayscale from Photoshop but as a CMYK from InDesign.
Just a thought.
Why not try Stephen Marsh's action to save the grayscale as a CMYK and then
see if it makes a difference when you place the file in InDesign?
My twopence worth.
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