
Originally Posted by
Lou_P
Hi Bob.
Settings for PDF and .PS workflows should be mostly the same. What is the source of the page files? That is are they being made in Adobe CS apps or somewhere else? If Adobe, look at the color settings and match your RGB and CMYK source profiles to the ones used but these design apps that create the pages.
For best results you should use and output profile and Fiery calibration you make specifically for your press and the paper type (s) you print on, we recommend Fiery Color Profiler Suite for this. *My Konica Minolta tech told me that this should be the same, plus I have use embedded profiles turned on for both CMYK and RGB when we are running these.*
But for sorting out source profiles as long as you choose the same factory default profile and calibration for all your tests and calibrate right before any tests you should be able to see the effect of choosing different source profiles has.
Are you doing a .PS workflow by saving .PS files or by printing them via the driver? * We receive these through a server where the files are loaded on from across the country and we pull them off to a hotfolder which loads the files straight into our HELD queue. I am not really able to see anything directly, unless I can save the incoming file to my jumpdrive and them carry it to my computer so I can look at it.
It seem that I need to Distill the files and I am not familiar enough to know which set of intents and settings I need to get the best PDF that would actually show me the clearest original intent. So far I have tried this on segments of these files to see if I can affect the colors/spot colors and have not been able to do so. Actually what I mean to say is that if I look at these through the Fiery after rasterization I am able to see Fiery's interpretation and see the CMYK of that segment, when I do a Distillation I get a far different CMYK build and neither CMYK responds to a spot color adjustment. I don't know if it is because of the spot color name or if it is the nature of the PS to not allow adjustment. *
Also, just curious but why the move away from PDF to .PS?
*Our company has switched production plants for various output production to other areas of the country, thus our PDF work went elsewhere while we had a massive increase in the PS workflow. It is my hope to learn enough about PDF 2.0 to see if I can influence sales to seek that file input from our clients instead of PS simply due to the adaptability of PDF 2.0 as well as the spot color influence so we can better guarantee a match to their expectations.*
~Lou