This is theory, so please hear me out. It may be rubbish, but I believe all good things started as theory.
I figure since GRACoL2006_Coated1v2, FOGRA39, and now FOGRA47 all share the same Lab values for paper white, that there is only one color temperature (say between 5000K and 6500K) that will produce a white patch with the closest Lab values to the standard paper white (now for coated #1 AND uncoated #4).
I figure once that color temperature is known that produces the closest Lab values to the target paper white (Lab 95,0,-2) would be the one everyone aiming at these standards would use. Kind of a standard color temperature that actually makes the monitor match the proof or print, instead of it being "6500K" (which is what I'm told by X-Rite to aim to when using Eye-One Match 3 software on my new ACD 30", which does not produce as good of a match as I'd like). So that's what got me to thinking.
I'd like anybody's input on this. Is it possible to get one color temperature that produces this Lab value (or close enough we can definitely say that's the color temperature we would want to aim to)? If yes, then is it feasible that once the monitor is set up to this white point and recommended Gamma and Luminance, then we could soft-proof both GRACoL 7 (or FOGRA39, or FOGRA47) without checking 'Simulate Paper White", but still check "Simulate Ink Black"?
Thank you all,
Don
I figure since GRACoL2006_Coated1v2, FOGRA39, and now FOGRA47 all share the same Lab values for paper white, that there is only one color temperature (say between 5000K and 6500K) that will produce a white patch with the closest Lab values to the standard paper white (now for coated #1 AND uncoated #4).
I figure once that color temperature is known that produces the closest Lab values to the target paper white (Lab 95,0,-2) would be the one everyone aiming at these standards would use. Kind of a standard color temperature that actually makes the monitor match the proof or print, instead of it being "6500K" (which is what I'm told by X-Rite to aim to when using Eye-One Match 3 software on my new ACD 30", which does not produce as good of a match as I'd like). So that's what got me to thinking.
I'd like anybody's input on this. Is it possible to get one color temperature that produces this Lab value (or close enough we can definitely say that's the color temperature we would want to aim to)? If yes, then is it feasible that once the monitor is set up to this white point and recommended Gamma and Luminance, then we could soft-proof both GRACoL 7 (or FOGRA39, or FOGRA47) without checking 'Simulate Paper White", but still check "Simulate Ink Black"?
Thank you all,
Don