Fabrizio Levati wrote:
Anyway, to make things clearer, what I tried to describe is the typical scenario that you will find in many printing plants. Usually the printer receive files prepared for a specific printing process (for example webcoated) and has to print a completely different kind of product (for example a low cost advertising magazine on standard newsprint paper-press). The first answer to this kind of needs is to use a devicelink profile to perform a repurposing. This will assure the best results in term of colour accuracy but will lead to different problems. For example, not preserving pure BLACK text will result in mis-registration problems during the print run. For the primaries, the problem is similar because the customer prefer a slightly different colour in a 0C 100M 100Y 0K text instead of seeing an halftoned text where it wasn't supposed to be.
It is an interesting problem, and I think what collink is currently capable of is a step in the direction of solving it, but not the complete answer. See how you go with the -fk option of V1.0.2 when I get around to releasing it. Graeme Gill.