Bob Croxford wrote:- >I think we had this argument before.
More of a friendly debate :-) Having Dan's book on my bedside at >the moment, (What we do for kicks I hear you say,) I think he is a >calibrationist but not an ICC convert. I'd go along with that . > >I am coming round to a view halfway. Should I be working on the other half ? > >1/ Dump everything through the ICC workflow a la Bruce Frazer. Way to go. > >2/ Select what needs tweaking and revert to Dan Margulis. You can still tweak with ICC an workflow , and Dans experience here is priceless. We've been working with a fine art pre press/press house on generating CMYK separation profiles. One of the most intriguing issues here is that of black generation. We're also working with the PPA on their Pic for Press initiative that will ultimately lead to a set of Profiles being provided for all images ( both editorial and advertising ) that appear in their publications ( Conde Nast , IPC, National Magazines etc ) I'll write a lot more about this soon , but one of the more important matters here is that of the provision of a number of profiles for one press description , enabling separations that suit particular kinds of images. The important thing here is to take on board the fact that ICC profiling doesn't provide an automated solution to RGB CMYK conversions . However it does provide a sound framework to make conversions in an accurate and predictable way . We used just such a workflow on the last two IDEA catalogues , carrying out the RGB to CMYK separations on our calibrated and profiled systems here in the studio. As a result we had a set of proofs that matched our expectations , and a press run that matched the proofs. Regards, Bob Marchant. =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
