On 26 Oct 2004, at 13:39, Ellie Kennard wrote:
He will post a file on his website, and send a print to the client - like a profile. He suggests 'making a profile' using the print and the file, so that you can use it to soft-proof. I am totally lost as to what he might mean...
Hi Ellie.
Sounds suspiciously like the the old bureau solution of "we'll send you a print and a file , and we'll get you to adjust your monitor while looking at this file to get the two to match.....a well known recipe for ultimate disaster.
If the printer is so confident of his press that one print run will be sufficient to describe it , then the best course of action would be to get him to print a well distributed CMYK target such as the ECI 2002 random target available from the ECI site. Then, with the printers information of ink limits , one could build a ( or a set of) profile(s) for RGB >CMYK conversion.
Doing this from just press run would of course assume that the printers premises are humidity and temperature controlled to within very tight tolerances and that his ink and substrates are always consistent , and/either that he has an extremely talented press minder. If this is the case , we'll all be queueing up to use him :-) !
Regards,
Bob Marchant.
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