Re: [NTG-context] Any plans for an active color management?

2020-02-17 Thread Hans Hagen
On 2/17/2020 6:52 PM, Floris van Manen wrote: On 17-02-2020 16:10, juh wrote: At least, digital images are always RGB. In my special case we started with a RGB corporate design as we are an online cooperative. Print comes later. The thing is that in print the CMYK will result in a fixed wel

Re: [NTG-context] Any plans for an active color management?

2020-02-17 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
> Am 2020-02-17 um 17:57 schrieb Jan U. Hasecke : > > I contacted three print shops and they demand three different color > profiles, one of them prints on "100 % recycling paper" with an uncoated > profile. The other two use ISO Coated v2 300% and Coated Fogra 39. Oh my, the sick state of my in

Re: [NTG-context] Any plans for an active color management?

2020-02-17 Thread Floris van Manen
On 17-02-2020 16:10, juh wrote: > At least, digital images are always RGB. > > In my special case we started with a RGB corporate design as we are an > online cooperative. Print comes later. The thing is that in print the CMYK will result in a fixed well defined object: a physical print on pap

Re: [NTG-context] Any plans for an active color management?

2020-02-17 Thread Jan U. Hasecke
Hi Henning Hraban, I contacted three print shops and they demand three different color profiles, one of them prints on "100 % recycling paper" with an uncoated profile. The other two use ISO Coated v2 300% and Coated Fogra 39. Being online shops I think they will complain if not the right profile

Re: [NTG-context] Any plans for an active color management?

2020-02-17 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Hi juh, it doesn’t make sense to use device profiles of any printshop, since all the printshops in most of Europe are supposed to standardize on Euroscale CMYK (ISO Coated FOGRA##) while in the USA they use SWOP CMYK and in Japan their own standard. So you can stay with the same profiles as lon

Re: [NTG-context] Any plans for an active color management?

2020-02-17 Thread juh
Floris van Manen writes: > On 17-02-2020 15:39, Hans Hagen wrote: >> On 2/17/2020 3:03 PM, Jan U. Hasecke wrote: >> >>> Are there any plans to automate these steps into ConTeXt? That would >>> enable us to work in RGB the whole time. Only when creating a print pdf >>> we would specify a color pr

Re: [NTG-context] Any plans for an active color management?

2020-02-17 Thread Floris van Manen
On 17-02-2020 15:39, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 2/17/2020 3:03 PM, Jan U. Hasecke wrote: > >> Are there any plans to automate these steps into ConTeXt? That would >> enable us to work in RGB the whole time. Only when creating a print pdf >> we would specify a color profile and ConTeXt would do the r

Re: [NTG-context] Any plans for an active color management?

2020-02-17 Thread Hans Hagen
On 2/17/2020 3:03 PM, Jan U. Hasecke wrote: Are there any plans to automate these steps into ConTeXt? That would enable us to work in RGB the whole time. Only when creating a print pdf we would specify a color profile and ConTeXt would do the rest by converting all rgb values to cmyk values due

[NTG-context] Any plans for an active color management?

2020-02-17 Thread Jan U. Hasecke
Hi all, I would like to come back to a discussion from 2018 on this list. After printing some flyers for my cooperative I come to the conclusion that color management *is* very difficult. In my eyes, the only way of getting good results seems to be the following process. My starting point are R