03-01-2008, 12:58 PM
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 117
Printer: Versacamm SP300V
Print room advice and some links..
Hi all,
Like a lot of people here im having problems with these darned ICC profiles.
Ive now taken it upon myself to get right into this field and start understanding what the heck is going on.
I do have some initial questions though which i know will get me started off on the right tip.
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How do you guys set up your print room lighting?
My print room is also my office! and so im using the same lighting to proof on my monitor as i do for the printing. what ive noticed is that i get a magenta cast over a lot of images, especially sky blues and gradients of blues e.g. landscapes taken on a glorious sunny day with spectacular blues. I find that the blues tend to sway towards purple hues, and also in places of the image ill get a visible sway of colour towards purple or cyan. Im not talking about banding lines, rather these areas seem to be "cloudy" in effect and almost as if there wasnt enough ink printed! Ill get some examples to show here soon.
Ive also noticed that any very dark area (but not 100% black) of an image also has this effect i described above for the blues. FYI - I save my work as TIFF @ EuroscaleCoated V2 and 75DPI at full size. Could the DPI cause this banding type problem? If i save at 300dpi then my file sizes are going nuclear and it takes the RIP half a day to process! Versaworks. I also have my Adobe workspace set to Adobe1998 default and in the View menu i have my Proof Setup checked on Working CMYK.
Another thing that baffles me in VW is the preview window. Why does it show images so saturated with colour? This is set to high quality adobe1998. But the difference of the preview window to whats shown in the work queue is startling! How come?
Ok thats all for now
plenty more to come. in the meantime i came across these sites that some might find useful, and for others its about sucking eggs lol
Cheers all
Dave.
http://www.thinck.com/index.html
http://epaperpress.com/monitorcal/
Like a lot of people here im having problems with these darned ICC profiles.
Ive now taken it upon myself to get right into this field and start understanding what the heck is going on.
I do have some initial questions though which i know will get me started off on the right tip.
---
How do you guys set up your print room lighting?
My print room is also my office! and so im using the same lighting to proof on my monitor as i do for the printing. what ive noticed is that i get a magenta cast over a lot of images, especially sky blues and gradients of blues e.g. landscapes taken on a glorious sunny day with spectacular blues. I find that the blues tend to sway towards purple hues, and also in places of the image ill get a visible sway of colour towards purple or cyan. Im not talking about banding lines, rather these areas seem to be "cloudy" in effect and almost as if there wasnt enough ink printed! Ill get some examples to show here soon.
Ive also noticed that any very dark area (but not 100% black) of an image also has this effect i described above for the blues. FYI - I save my work as TIFF @ EuroscaleCoated V2 and 75DPI at full size. Could the DPI cause this banding type problem? If i save at 300dpi then my file sizes are going nuclear and it takes the RIP half a day to process! Versaworks. I also have my Adobe workspace set to Adobe1998 default and in the View menu i have my Proof Setup checked on Working CMYK.
Another thing that baffles me in VW is the preview window. Why does it show images so saturated with colour? This is set to high quality adobe1998. But the difference of the preview window to whats shown in the work queue is startling! How come?
Ok thats all for now
plenty more to come. in the meantime i came across these sites that some might find useful, and for others its about sucking eggs lolCheers all
Dave.
http://www.thinck.com/index.html
http://epaperpress.com/monitorcal/
