In a message dated Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:41:53, matthew ward writes:
On 20 Oct 2004, at 21:44, Bob Marchant wrote:
And what on earth are we meant to do when the client specifies CMYK.
Get a CMYK specification, target or best of all agree on a CMYK colourspace defined by an ICC profile.
Yeah right :-)) RGB it is then. Thanks for your help.
Dear Matthew
I responded to your earlier posting many hours ago, but it has so far failed to arrive as far as I am aware, but I am responding to this most recent posting of yours...perhaps it will arrive before the first <G>
Anyone supplying RGB for print should realise that they are of course relinquishing the ability to control how any out of gamut colours will be re-mapped for starters. You also loose the opportunity to make adjustments to the image in CMYK, you also will not be able to do the sharpening of your choice.
Handing over RGB files to a printer is (usually) almost as unsatisfactory as handing over a colour negative to them in effect.....not a good work flow if you want the best out of your work, as only you really know what you want your work to print like. Yes, I know that this is being idealist, but we are photographers aren't we!
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