On 18.06.2009 23:51, JimmyVolatile wrote:
Actually, the print house I use most of the time recommends only sending RGB-files as the final CMYK conversion takes place *inside* the printer and as long as the operators manually tell the printer what RGB color profile were used to create the file, it should turn out fine. The profile doesn't need to be embedded as such as long as there are no embedded images with different profiles in one file.
You can send / hand over an RGB file, no doubt. But I want to know in advance what the print is going to look like. First, the printer's color space is smaller then sRGB; this is where gamut and rendering intend come into play. Second, the colors will slightly vary with the CMYK profile the print shop uses, e.g., Adobe's EuroscaleCoated red is 'more' red than ECI's ISOcoated.
Setting up profiles and proofing on Linux Mint with the latest Inkscape pre-release, also worked nicely. Out of gamut colors are marked and all.
Is this planned to work on Window's with the 0.47 release too? Nothing about it in the release notes...
My only issue now is that, like I said, my print house would like me to design and proof with Adobe RGB (1998) but only CMYK profiles appear in the "Device profile:" dropdown. Do anyone have any ideas on solving this? Or could setting the display profile to Adobe RGB help here somehow?
Dubious, dubious... My print shop is a bit like this one, they hope convincingly but do not know much.
There is a considerable lack of documentation on this theme. I found some very good lyrical introductions on color-managed printing, all focusing on Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator etc; no in-depth IT view focusing on Gimp or Scribus so far.
Also, the tools I can use to create print files are poorly documented. If things work fine, it's OK; if not, you are lost. I can just assume that my print files are OK (can't say much about the PDF/Xs dropping out of Scribus; TIFFs seem to be the better choice) and I have to guess how to cope with the print shop's work flow, which they often do not understand themselves (s.a.).
I still can't / don't know how to print Inkscape output properly. This makes the whole application a little useless. Can we discuss this here?
H.L