With todays technology providing very quick, economic and accurate contract colour proofs and standardised printing using ISO 12647 process control, is the concept, even the conceit, of the clients needing to pass a job on press out-dated?
Most production managers will have shuddered when the sales person hands back the colour proofs with the [...]
I guess most users of ISO 12647/2 will either use the Fogra 39 based ‘ISO coated v2” profiles from the ECI (European Color Initiative) or Adobes ‘Coated FOGRA39 (ISO 12647-2-2004)’ profile which is in the later versions of Adobe CS and used by their color settings file ‘Europe Prepress 3’.
Just to mention [...]
Now that the BPIF UK ISO 12647/2 certification scheme is, at long last, in place with its first UKAS accredited certifying body, Print & Media Certification, the first such third party certified scheme for ISO 12647-2 in the world, I have been musing on my time working with the standard and colour [...]
