Dear Sam This might be sacrilege but....
Do you know that the Iris Proofer is producing proofs as good as the litho printer can achieve? Have you asked the litho printer to do a test machine proof to be certain? Have you tried ignoring Euroscale settings and testing an "out of gamut" RGB to CMYK non-profiled conversion. Can you get more saturation that way? Your printer might do better than Euroscale if you give them the right and consistent proof. The only thing I can suggest if you are certain your system is producing the best possible file is to use Curves in CMYK to very intelligently boost contrast where you want it. Who is the printer? Are they known to run 5 colour? That could help too. Yours Bob Croxford In a message dated 1/14/03 3:36:01 PM, starphoto writes: << Hi fellow listees, Can anyone offer any pointers to improve the saturation of a few images that I am printing in CMYK for my book. I'm not wishing to open the profiling debate again as I am fully aware of the benefits of this as I am sure are most of the list, however, although my knowledge of CMYK is improving on a day by day basis there are always certain prints that I produce that leave me scratching my head for an answer. In this case high colour saturation in blues that I am unable to get anywhere near in print, that is both in a sky and in clothes. We are producing Euroscale V2 conversions in PS6 having sometime ago gone down the route of adding the Binuscan CeMagYK separations package to our Sinar Captureshop software (hence the profiling comment). Unfortunately the conversations in CeMagYK have prooved somewhat disapointing and so we have on a whole reverted to PS6 conversions which print well on our Iris iProof printer but not in this case. So any knowledge on improving or tweeking the conversions to improve colour saturation that anyone is prepared to share would be welcome. Thanks in advance. Sam Moxon >> =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
