Thomas Holm / Pixl wrote: >> If a customer gives me a CMYK file to print, which I will send >> through as I receive it, should I then make a CMYK profile for soft- >> proofing? > > No need. Your printer profile describes your printer, regardless of the > driver type. If it is accurate it's accurate for both RGB AND CMYK...
How can you be sure that the cmyk channel of the driver and the rgb channel of the driver are going to interpret the information equally. Try building a cmyk profile for your driver and send a cmyk image out to print. Send the same image using your 'RGB' printer profile and compare the results. I thought it was good practice to consider profiles as 'route through driver' dependent. If so, then you will get two different looking prints from the above test. Otherwise you're info converting cmyk > rgb ( = pointless, from a workflow point of view, but will help the RGB driver in anticipating the data) and sending that out to the rgb driver route. Let us know how you get on. m./ =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
