Re: Matchlock and cyan skies

[CDTobie@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/9/00 4:15:17 PM, jowilcox@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu writes:

>
>As it turns out, when I do a Gamut Warning view, all the areas that look
>OK
>on the monitor and print out too cyan are out of gamut.  I'm not sure why
>they look OK on the monitor.  I suppose I'll have to calibrate with a puck,
>but stuff that's otherwise in gamut sure seems spot on with the profiled
>print.

One explanataion is that they look okay on the monitor because monitors don't 
display out of gamut colors the same way that your printing system is 
printing them. But the question needs to be asked: out of *what* gamut. Often 
people use the gamut check, but do not have an appropriate CMYK space 
selected to check the gamut of... so what you are really checking is that for 
SWOP offset printing those colors are not in gamut.  If you actually have an 
accurate CMYK profile for a good CMYK RIP for your Epson selected, then this 
tool is telling you that you truely can't print those colors to your inkjet, 
and depending on rendering intent, one or another adjustment will occur.

C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
CDTobie@designcoop.com
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