The overriding reason for RGB equal value producung neutral and CMYK needing different
values for cyan and the magenta - yellow is the colour or
spectral response of the ink set.
Yellow is the best ink but cyan and magenta have large transmission errors. Magenta is
contaminated with yellow and a little cyan - cyan ink is
contaminated with magenta and yellow.
To produce a neutral in CMYKthe grey balance must be altered to remove the imbalance
caused by the contaminants. The balack also helps to build up
density lost by balancing the ink set to make neutrals.
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1. Re: RGB to CMYK with ISO web coated profile (Andy Psarianos)
2. Re: RGB to CMYK with ISO web coated profile (Chris Murphy)
3. Re: RGB to CMYK with ISO web coated profile (Peter Kleinheider)
4. Re: RGB to CMYK with ISO web coated profile (Paul Sherfield)
5. Re: RGB to CMYK with ISO web coated profile (Peter Kleinheider)
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Message: 1
From: Andy Psarianos <andy(a)psarianos.com>
Subject: Re: [ECI-EN] RGB to CMYK with ISO web coated profile
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 21:46:12 +0100
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Paul,
Thanks that's really helpful.
Yes indeed I am talking about the latest release of the profile called
"ISO web coated"
For example if I convert the following values I get the following
results.
From RGB Adobe 1998:
RGB 50,50,50 to "SWOP" CMYK = 70,64,63,62
(C highest and M and Y are similar values)
RGB 50,50,50 to "ISO web coated" CMYK = 64,53,48,71
(C highest M in middle and Y lowest)
I'm not saying SWOP is correct, but if I were to remove the black
separation it would appear grey wouldn't it? I don't believe the values
in the ISO web coated values would be neutral. If this is the case, the
question is why?
I do understand that the lack of yellow in the dark greys could be
hidden by the heavy black, but I don't understand why this was done,
and why a more "conventional & balanced grey" was not chosen. Is it
simply that when printing shadows with equal amounts of m and y they
have a "yellowish hue" or is this an ink trapping issue?
Overall, all tests I've done with the ISO web coated profile in
conversions results have been very good. I'm willing to accept that
these "unconventional values" in principle are OK, although I have
several sceptics here which I need to convince.
I would like to know what the reason was for this choice, if indeed it
was a choice.
Can anyone help shine some light on this decision?
many thanks
Andy Psarianos
On 30 Jul 2004, at 18:38, Paul Sherfield wrote:
Hi Andy
Yes it does look a little odd, but works well in practise, due to the
GCR
setting I think. This is the latest ISO wed coated icc, as of a few
months
ago?
Worked very well for me when a client was given Euroscale coated v2 for
sheetfed images for a wed offset production with lots of neutral
consumer
electrical images. I was called in after the first printing!! We
changed the
Euroscale coated v2 to ISO web coated with good results when reprinted.
Regards
Paul Sherfield
The Missing Horse Consultancy Ltd
Telephone: 01442 871752
Mobile: 07899 906385
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From: Chris Murphy <lists(a)colorremedies.com>
Subject: Re: [ECI-EN] RGB to CMYK with ISO web coated profile
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 15:03:16 -0600
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On Aug 3, 2004, at 2:46 PM, Andy Psarianos wrote:
RGB Adobe 1998:
RGB 50,50,50 to "SWOP" CMYK = 70,64,63,62
(C highest and M and Y are similar values)
RGB 50,50,50 to "ISO web coated" CMYK = 64,53,48,71
(C highest M in middle and Y lowest)
I'm not saying SWOP is correct, but if I were to remove the black
separation it would appear grey wouldn't it? I don't believe the
values in the ISO web coated values would be neutral. If this is the
case, the question is why?
I do understand that the lack of yellow in the dark greys could be
hidden by the heavy black, but I don't understand why this was done,
and why a more "conventional & balanced grey" was not chosen. Is it
simply that when printing shadows with equal amounts of m and y they
have a "yellowish hue" or is this an ink trapping issue?
I see this frequently with inkjet printing. If the yellow ink is very
saturated (pure) compared to the other inks, it will take less yellow
to balance the blue produced by cyan and magenta. And some yellow inks
can be fairly green, which would take more magenta to further offset
that contamination in the yellow.
Off hand I can't say what yellow ink hue is being used with ISO web
coated, but this is probably what's going on. This is why color by the
numbers doesn't work unless you know the inkset and the print behavior
of the press/printer very well. CMYK numbers are ambiguous.
Chris Murphy
Color Remedies (TM)
www.colorremedies.com/realworldcolor
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Published by PeachPit Press (ISBN 0-201-77340-6)
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 10:49:03 +0200
From: Peter Kleinheider <pkleinheider(a)a1.net>
Subject: Re: [ECI-EN] RGB to CMYK with ISO web coated profile
To: eci-en(a)lists.transmedia.de
<282E5EE1-E58E-11D8-A683-000393468A5E(a)psarianos.com>
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Andy
When you do a relativ Colormetric Conversion from AdobeRGB to ISO Web
Coated, a different way of gray-generation gets used as of perceptual.
Since in a print run the yellow color is (usually) the last coler,
Heidelberg (Profiles are done with Heidelberg PrintOpen) found that the
yellow color is often reflecting and the color gets lighter the more
yellow is on the sheet in a darkgray area. Therefor in the RelCol RI,
the yellow color gets reduced a little bit more. Even at about 85%
Gray, the values of yellow stall or drop when the color gets darker.
When you separate using the Perceptive RI, you will find CMYK-Values
that you would more consider as to be gray. But in real world pint
production, you will not see much difference.
Maybe Mr. Bestmann from Heidelberg cann explain that better.
rgds
Peter Kleinheider
Am 03.08.2004 um 22:46 schrieb Andy Psarianos:
Paul,
Thanks that's really helpful.
Yes indeed I am talking about the latest release of the profile called
"ISO web coated"
For example if I convert the following values I get the following
results.
From RGB Adobe 1998:
RGB 50,50,50 to "SWOP" CMYK = 70,64,63,62
(C highest and M and Y are similar values)
RGB 50,50,50 to "ISO web coated" CMYK = 64,53,48,71
(C highest M in middle and Y lowest)
I'm not saying SWOP is correct, but if I were to remove the black
separation it would appear grey wouldn't it? I don't believe the
values in the ISO web coated values would be neutral. If this is the
case, the question is why?
I do understand that the lack of yellow in the dark greys could be
hidden by the heavy black, but I don't understand why this was done,
and why a more "conventional & balanced grey" was not chosen. Is it
simply that when printing shadows with equal amounts of m and y they
have a "yellowish hue" or is this an ink trapping issue?
Overall, all tests I've done with the ISO web coated profile in
conversions results have been very good. I'm willing to accept that
these "unconventional values" in principle are OK, although I have
several sceptics here which I need to convince.
I would like to know what the reason was for this choice, if indeed it
was a choice.
Can anyone help shine some light on this decision?
many thanks
Andy Psarianos
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 09:55:26 +0100
Subject: Re: [ECI-EN] RGB to CMYK with ISO web coated profile
From: Paul Sherfield <paul(a)missinghorsecons.co.uk>
To: <eci-en(a)lists.transmedia.de>
CC: Andy Psarianos <andy(a)psarianos.com>
Reply-To: eci-en(a)lists.transmedia.de
Hi Andy
It does look odd, but as Chris Murphy said the yellow can do strange things
within a CMYK grey balance.
I believe this GCR setting within the profile is causing the results you are
seeing, reducing the yellow in a RGB to CMYK conversion to reduce the
possibility of a yellow bias.
The grey balance for ISO for the CMY is:
Cyan Magenta Yellow
Quarter tone 25% 19% 19%
Mid tone 50% 40% 40%
Three qu. tone 75% 46% 46%
But this will not reflect the profile and any GCR that would be applied with
a RGB to CMYK conversion.
As you say the ISO profiles do work well, if the printers follow the
standard printing conditions associated with each profile.
Regards
Paul
The Missing Horse Consultancy Ltd
Telephone: 01442 871752
Mobile: 07899 906385
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 11:04:13 +0200
From: Peter Kleinheider <pkleinheider(a)a1.net>
Subject: Re: [ECI-EN] RGB to CMYK with ISO web coated profile
To: eci-en(a)lists.transmedia.de
Reply-To: eci-en(a)lists.transmedia.de
Paul
This is just a recomendation and does not take in concern any color
cast of the paper.
the issue is: if a printer is printing according to ISO 12647, then the
colors will turn out to be gray on the prints (when doing a separation
of AdobeRGB or ECI-RGB to ISO Web coated)
Am 04.08.2004 um 10:55 schrieb Paul Sherfield:
The grey balance for ISO for the CMY is:
Cyan Magenta Yellow
Quarter tone 25% 19% 19%
Mid tone 50% 40% 40%
Three qu. tone 75% 46% 46%
Peter
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