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I always find colour management a little impenetrable ( I understand the basic idea, but the details can throw me sometimes). I’m just getting my colour settings sorted out for CS3 (Ai, Ps, and InD, via Bridge’s sync feature) and am wondering about profiles.
I usually find myself in position where I have to start artwork before a printer is decided upon, so I don’t normally have the option of getting a profile from the printer up front and end up having to use the best ‘general purpose’ profile set up that I can. I was going to go with Adobe RGB and Fogra27* from Adobe’s regular set but I keep hearing that the ECI profiles give excellent results, so I am also considering eciRGB_v2 and ISOcoated_v2_eci*.
I’ve searched all over the electric interweb but can’t find any real comparison of the two sets from a user/artworker’s point of view — every comparison gives vast amounts of highly technical data that is quite beyond me, but stops short of advising use of one or the other. Does anyone have any recommendations either way?
For the record, I work in the UK and my print work tends to be printed on sheet-fed offset litho (and occasionally digital). I’m after a good, reliable, middle-ground profile setup that will work most of the time when I don’t know the specifics of the final output press. I know that ideally I should get profiles form the printers before starting the artwork but it’s generally just not possible.
Thanks for any advice
* for RGB/CMYK respectively
I usually find myself in position where I have to start artwork before a printer is decided upon, so I don’t normally have the option of getting a profile from the printer up front and end up having to use the best ‘general purpose’ profile set up that I can. I was going to go with Adobe RGB and Fogra27* from Adobe’s regular set but I keep hearing that the ECI profiles give excellent results, so I am also considering eciRGB_v2 and ISOcoated_v2_eci*.
I’ve searched all over the electric interweb but can’t find any real comparison of the two sets from a user/artworker’s point of view — every comparison gives vast amounts of highly technical data that is quite beyond me, but stops short of advising use of one or the other. Does anyone have any recommendations either way?
For the record, I work in the UK and my print work tends to be printed on sheet-fed offset litho (and occasionally digital). I’m after a good, reliable, middle-ground profile setup that will work most of the time when I don’t know the specifics of the final output press. I know that ideally I should get profiles form the printers before starting the artwork but it’s generally just not possible.
Thanks for any advice
* for RGB/CMYK respectively
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