Polyprintgirl
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We have an X-rite 939 spectrodensitometer that we use with X-rite ColorMaster software.
We were set up with an initial 50/2 illuminate/observer setting (I inherited the color management portion of my job from 2 people that have since left the co.). This I can see in the ColorMaster software. Turns out some of our pressmen are measuring with a 50/10 setting, and saving the L*a*b* values with those settings. I called X-Rite, they said that the 50/2 setting is for printing. They didn't have any specific ideas on what the 50/10 setting might be for, other than that it is a "morning light" setting. I think the pressmen may be using the 50/10 setting by mistake.
If I have the pressmen change to a 50/2 setting, won't they have to re-read all the spot colors they're printing and then re-save them all as 50/2 back into the client list in the ColorMaster software? I thought about going in and changing all their illuminate/observer settings back to 50/2, but I think that'd really screw them up when they went to run the job again.
What exactly does the observer setting do/show? X-rite said that it tells how data relates to the human eye. This is confusing to me.
Any ideas w/b appreciated. Thanks.
We were set up with an initial 50/2 illuminate/observer setting (I inherited the color management portion of my job from 2 people that have since left the co.). This I can see in the ColorMaster software. Turns out some of our pressmen are measuring with a 50/10 setting, and saving the L*a*b* values with those settings. I called X-Rite, they said that the 50/2 setting is for printing. They didn't have any specific ideas on what the 50/10 setting might be for, other than that it is a "morning light" setting. I think the pressmen may be using the 50/10 setting by mistake.
If I have the pressmen change to a 50/2 setting, won't they have to re-read all the spot colors they're printing and then re-save them all as 50/2 back into the client list in the ColorMaster software? I thought about going in and changing all their illuminate/observer settings back to 50/2, but I think that'd really screw them up when they went to run the job again.
What exactly does the observer setting do/show? X-rite said that it tells how data relates to the human eye. This is confusing to me.
Any ideas w/b appreciated. Thanks.
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