On Sun, Jun 1, 2014, at 04:08 PM, Gez wrote:
El dom, 01-06-2014 a las 13:53 +0000, inkscape-user-request@lists.sourceforge.net escribió:
Gez, I know inkscape doesnt really work well for a purely CMYK workflow, I knew that from the start. I must say that your statement about CMYK values tied to press settings are not what I, nor anyone I know in print and design have been doing, maybe your statement would make more sense(for me anyway) if you mentioned that printer ICC profiles are tied to specific press settings.
Man, saying that a printer ICC profile is tied to specific press settings and saying that a specific set of CMYK values is tied to specific press settings is the same. Are you saying that they are different things and a specific set of CMYK values will print the same in any press?
Yes, generally a designer creating something CMYK for print needs to know *which* CMYK they are using. Some of the common names include SWOP, GRACoL, FOGRA, and SNAP. Note that there are several of each of these, such as "SWOP v2", FOGRA39, etc.
I had a blog post a while back about how abstract CMYK is meaningless. http://codewideopen.blogspot.com/2010/09/cmyk-is-meaningless.html