"Color management is intrinsically complex. I’ve had two NASA scientists, literally rocket scientists, complain to me how hard it is."
C. David Tobie, Colorvision, Inc.
The designer’s specs were for the files to be in a "Generic Adobe RGB Profile." This was not terribly useful (Adobe RGB is not an output profile--it defines an abstract color space, not the behavior of a device like a printer/paper profile.) So I talked to the printer. "We don’t color manage anything. We work from colormatch prints. I know how to tweak it on the computer to match." On an unprofiled monitor, of course.
This is the printer that has, among other clients, National Geographic.
Gaaah! That's just frightening.
And, as of course you know by now from reading Fraser, et. al., when in doubt, deliver in sRGB when they don't know what to do with it.
And deliver a matchprint.
Posted by: Josh Wand | June 21, 2006 at 03:15 PM