Recent content by Schnitzel

Also, working for display isn't the only reason to use Photoshop.

To quote from The Peter Principle: "In any economic or political crisis, one thing is certain. Many learned experts will prescribe many different remedies." Even though Peter didn't mention a health crisis, I think the current pandemic demonstrates this principle magnificently.

Doesn't look like satellites to me. Satellites always follow a previous drop in the substrate's movement direction, and usually comprise only 1 or 2 drops. These look like a highlight area of black ink. @printing4me I'm surprised no one suggested this yet: smell the print! If the inner pages...

Well, who says Photoshop converts colors best? Yes, the color engines are most likely different. The thing is, ICC profiles and the whole color management workflow, have a lot of limitations and leave a lot of freedom in the hands of color engine designers, and ICC profile creators, to do as...

Because you don't start with the B2A tables! When you create a printer ICC profile, you print combinations of CMYK values and measure them to get the CIELab values. This will give you the "device to PCS" side of the ICC profile, which is the A2B tables. From these measurements, the profiling...

Sorry, I don't understand your first assumption: the reception of the human eye was standardized in 1931 in the CIEXYZ color space, and the entire color management concept is based on this standard observer. Of course you "see" color with your brain, ultimately, but that is irrelevant - the...

It's a digital press. It can do Digital Stuff™, like short runs, variable data, personalization, every-page-is-different etc. Hardly. Standard offset color gamut is orders of magnitude smaller than what your eye can see. Even extended gamut leaves a lot to be desired. Print technology...

Do you have any experience with color management and ICC profiles?

I might have got the G7 part wrong - did you achieve G7 for your offset presses or the Indigo? It's safe to say custom ICC profiles will always give you better results than a generic profile.

May I ask why did you go for G7 in a digital press? What's the benefit of it if you can easily create an ICC profile which gives you gray balance?

i1Profiler can't generate a TIFF or PDF with spot colors in them - they opted for EPS instead. I remember using a really terrible workflow to get what I wanted: Place the EPS in Illustrator (InDesign doesn't like these EPS files, don't know why). Save as a PDF - make sure you don't downsample...

HP Indigo has several labels and flexible-packaging machines. The equivalent of the 7900 in the article would be the 6900. I personally operated the 6000 model for several years. It's a good machine, but it suffers from color drift in long runs as expected from a laser printer, so the...

Does it have support for right-to-left languages (Hebrew, Arabic etc.)? Can't find a trial version to find out myself.

That's interesting. How does the software know what type the image is? Image analysis? Number of unique colors in the image, sharpness of edges or something similar?

Take cover, I think Dov Isaacs isn't going to be happy with your workflow...