Kodak Approval
Kodak Approval
Kodak Approval can certainly make use of ICC profiles in a color managed workflow, but there really aren’t stock ICC profiles. Kodak Approval offers a selection of color donor families, including several sets of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black plus Orange, Green and Blue (and White and Silver), which can substantially increase the achievable color gamut. Users are able to pick and choose in any combination among the several donor materials and are further able to specify and control parameters such as screening, density and dot gain (independently for each color separation) such that there really isn't a standard Kodak Approval setup which might then yield a stock ICC profile. However, ICC profiles can be built and edited with tools such as Kodak ColorFlow.
Alternatively, many Approval users rely on Kodak Recipe Color Technology instead to render spot or custom colors as actual, single-color separations (with their own screening, density and dot gain characteristics) on the proof, rather than using combinations of process colors, such as inkjet. Either way yields good results.
If maximum color gamut is a key objective, recently introduced Kodak Approval Packaging Color Donors are designed to yield the maximum possible color range, particularly useful for creating package design mock-ups on a range of substrate materials. Magenta / purple / blue spectral regions are particularly expanded with new Approval Packaging Color Donors.
Geoff Kolb
Global Product Manager - Halftone Proofing & Inkjet Media
Eastman Kodak Co.