From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/17428 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Siep Kroonenberg Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Black generation in cmyk output Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 11:56:10 +0100 Message-ID: <20041207105610.GJ2980@muisje> References: <20041130150602.GA1420@mnw.art.pl> <41AC903E.9030000@elvenkind.com> <20041201141942.GA1143@mnw.art.pl> <6CD8912C-43B6-11D9-9EBB-0030659899AA@fiee.net> <41ADF6B9.7050700@wxs.nl> <20041202094007.GB1269@mnw.art.pl> <41AEEA2B.4090407@elvenkind.com> <1102412435.5012.74.camel@phoebus.venus.bay> Reply-To: Siep Kroonenberg , mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1102417166 19807 80.91.229.6 (7 Dec 2004 10:59:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 10:59:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Dec 07 11:59:22 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Cbd3y-0001p7-00 for ; Tue, 07 Dec 2004 11:59:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 272BB127A1; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 11:59:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 01706-01; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 11:59:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 632361279D; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 11:57:30 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F00501279D for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 11:57:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 01587-02-2 for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 11:57:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from dep.oprit.rug.nl (unknown [129.125.36.9]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EB651276D for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 11:57:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from muisje (GN-HE001-COM03-200-159.kabela.oprit.rug.nl [129.125.200.159]) by dep.oprit.rug.nl (8.12.10.Beta2/8.12.10.Beta2) with SMTP id iB7AvMHa025012; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 11:57:27 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by muisje (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 7 Dec 2004 11:56:10 +0100 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1102412435.5012.74.camel@phoebus.venus.bay> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:17428 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:17428 On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:40:35AM +0100, Tobias Hilbricht wrote: > Am Do, den 02.12.2004 schrieb Taco Hoekwater um 11:10: > > Just curious: why do you need a cmyk pdf document? > > Of course you can leave colour space conversion and colour separation to > the printer (provided the printer has the means to do so). However, for > full control over the print colours it is better to have a calibrated > monitor and a document in the CMYK colourspace - then you see what the > colours a likely to look like, and dependency on the printer is reduced. > Agencies, which prepare graphics for advertisements, pay thousands of > Euros to be able to control the correct outcome of corporate colours or > skin colours, for example. > > Yours sincerely > > Tobias Hilbricht CMYK is considered a device-dependent colorspace, which takes press conditions into account. So you are more, not less dependent on your printer by going for CMYK. At least, this is the theory. Anyhow, it is a good idea to discuss color with your printshop if color fidelity is an issue. -- Siep Kroonenberg