These ECI profiles are made from the FOGRA datasets. These were obtained by experts from various presses set up to optimum repeatable performance as in ISO 12647-2. Thus, the ECI profiles can often provide a much better characterisation than Euroscale Coated which is:
1: too high an ink limit for many processes
I just took a look at this profile (from ECI_Offset_2004.zip) and the info file shows it as having a "Total Dot Area" (is that the same as Total Ink?) of 350. If so it's surely no better than Euroscale Coated as a default, bearing in mind the original poster's issue:
(At 12:21 pm +0100 20/10/04, matthew ward wrote:
I have just got off the phone from a large prepress house because some tear sheets have rather more black ink on them than is ideal. (Like the paper is buckled where the dark image is.)
They originally stated that euroscale coated v2 would be fine. Apparently they have a company policy to respect the RGB profiles but strip off all CMYK profiles to keep the total ink limit to 300%. (AFAIK Euroscale is 350%).
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