Hi Dan
22/8/03 12:26 pm Dan <drharris-at-sprintmail.com> wrote
>Anyone else noticing that after importing the file into ps7, no
>conversion done, adobe rgb 1998, black point comp and perceptual working
>space. That while soft proofing with or without a printer profile
>selected the color image is almost totally out of gamut?
note that you can't actually softproof <without a printer profile>, or
at least without some form of output profile. If you don't select a
profile Photoshop does it for you - using the default CMYK from
<color settings>.
>When I toss in my printer profiles it gets a bit better,
this is, therefore, demonstrating that the chosen printer's colourspace
is larger than that of your default CMYK.
>colorlife
>being the best, but still very much of the color portion is out of
>gamut, probable 85% or more?
sometimes this will happen with a high gamut image, a workingspace
(esp. a large one like ARGB) can hold a lot of unprintable colour.
Hence the need for a properly profiled [wide gamut] printer in every
studio so that CMYK output can be simulated. One further point is that
lots of that image will be outside the monitor's colourspace too.
Try setting custom softproof to the monitor profile leaving gamut
warning ON. Just to give you an idea what tone in saturated areas is
printable but not actually visible on screen.
>Saturation is reduced tremendously as
>well in soft proof. I haven't tried to print it out on my 1280 running
>a cis and plug-n-play inksets.
do you have an accurate printer profile? It not only gives you accurate
prints but also a good softproof. I have clients who get every print
right first time. It takes practice to do that of course ;-} aswell as
a good profile.
>
>Dan
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