Hi, I have changed the ICC profiles with my monitor for RGB and Fogra27 for CMYK. I have no warning sign anymore. : ) Color management is still mysterious to me... (as well as english abbreviations ; ) ) So, I really appreciate your help.
Thanks a lot. Florence On 4/27/06, PLinnell <mrdocs at scribus.info> wrote: > > Salut Florence, > > On Thursday 27 April 2006 10:49, Florence Gaillaguet wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have chosen 5 colors in a Pantone booklet, called my printer to > > get the CMYK values and created them with Scribus. A red triangle > > has appeared in the color menu : does this mean that the color are > > out of gamut ? > > Possibly. Possibly not. These are a *warning*. The ICC specs do not > define exactly how this works, so it is a 'best guess' based on the > printing profile. The other variable is paper density and brightness. > High gloss paper often has better gamut, as it can absorb more ink > per sq/cm > > > > What are the consequences of that ? > > If you are printing CMYK, the ink combo might be outside of a given > profile's gamut and depending on the rendering choice, there could be > what we call gamut compression, where two close but not matching > shades are merged into one. > > When printing images, you could lose detail in shadows or certain > shades may not have the same vividness or deepness. > > > Is it just a problem with my color management settings (ECI rvg & > > Iso Coated) ? > > None at all. Just make sure Scribus is using a monitor profile for > your monitor, not a generic RGB one. > > > > > These are the CMYK : > > Dark red : 0 95 100 2 > > Dark green : 34 0 81 71 > > yellow : 0 18 100 0 > > orange 0 42 100 7 > > Plugging these numbers in with Fogra-27 coated shows no warnings, but > I think the getting the exact deep green and *exact* shade of red > might be tricky. > > Using similar shades on a project coated stock did not pose a problem > and I was very pleased with the results. The deep green was well > saturated and the red was really really close. > > > > > > Thank you for your help > > Florence > Hope that helps, > > Peter > > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20060428/8c107e9c/attachment-0001.html
