05-15-2008, 07:35 PM
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Ah, I wrongly assumed you were not currently making your own profiles.
Ok, here you go.
First I'll make some more assumptions...
- that you have the ability to setup input profiles and simulation (sometimes called proofing) profiles within your RIP and are not having to do this in your desktop applications.
- you understand the pros and cons of selecting rendering intents and how icc conversions work in a superficial sense.
The diagram of the workflow on the proofer goes ( "->" means a conversion is happening)...
File's working space -> profile for what you want to simulation -> proofer's profile
Most folks would setup the rendering intents as
File -> (perceptual for rasters and relative colorimetric for vectors) -> what you want to simulate
then
what you want to simulate -> (absolute colorimetric) -> proofer's profile
Sometimes you're better off to set the proofing step to relative colorimetric to avoid the color of the simulation profile's white being printed. It's a matter of what you're trying to achieve and how fussy you are about the overall match.
I hope I didn't assume too much now. Really you're just adding an additional conversion on to the end of an established workflow that converts from what you're trying to simulate to the icc for the output your trying to imitate it on.
Ok, here you go.
First I'll make some more assumptions...
- that you have the ability to setup input profiles and simulation (sometimes called proofing) profiles within your RIP and are not having to do this in your desktop applications.
- you understand the pros and cons of selecting rendering intents and how icc conversions work in a superficial sense.
The diagram of the workflow on the proofer goes ( "->" means a conversion is happening)...
File's working space -> profile for what you want to simulation -> proofer's profile
Most folks would setup the rendering intents as
File -> (perceptual for rasters and relative colorimetric for vectors) -> what you want to simulate
then
what you want to simulate -> (absolute colorimetric) -> proofer's profile
Sometimes you're better off to set the proofing step to relative colorimetric to avoid the color of the simulation profile's white being printed. It's a matter of what you're trying to achieve and how fussy you are about the overall match.
I hope I didn't assume too much now. Really you're just adding an additional conversion on to the end of an established workflow that converts from what you're trying to simulate to the icc for the output your trying to imitate it on.
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