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Help with seat of the pants color management?
Grant Blankenship, Photographer
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Macon | GA | USA | Posted: 1:40 PM on 06.12.09 |
->> So our paper has been thrown into a regional layout and colormanagement system with other papers in our company across our region. The system lives and breathes up in North Carolina. We are in GA. Also, we no longer print in house. Instead we print at a sister paper about 2 hours away.
OK. This layout system is supposed to be customizable in terms of color space by virtue of what the presses are capable of. Just like what you are probably used to, you measure the press's reproduction and limit your toning via color profile accordingly, only this time the color profile is to be installed far away by software engineers we have never met. Are you beginning to see the problem?
So, as you might have guessed, no such color profile exists in our system for our paper. Our reproduction has been all over the map.
My question is this.
Given what we actually have at our fingertips, which is the day's paper and what the images look like on our displays, how would you go about getting a handle on the color? If you would, name devices and software in your answer.
I'll start...first step is getting any color profile, doesn't matter which, plugged into the layout system. Got to have some constant, right?
Thanks.
Grant B. |
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Hal Smith, Photographer
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Sedalia | MO | USA | Posted: 1:58 PM on 06.12.09 |
->> Really about the only thing you can do is to recalibrate your monitors to the specifications of the new output device (i.e. press)
Reconfigure for dot gain, color match for CMYK ink combination differences in green, red, blue.
The master desk at the press should be preflighting all pages for color problems before taking them to press. |
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