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The client sent a file for us to proof with our 6/40 coated press profile embedded.
The proof came out overly major Reddish (Mag too high).
Are we doubling up on our profile?
In Rampage, we proof using our Press profile as the Source profile, the Destination profile is the Epson 10600 ICC, with a rendering intent of Relative Colormetric.
I opened 2 copies of their file - one honoring the profile and one discarding the profile.
The one I honored was reddish like the proof, the other where I discarded to profile was closer to the color they wanted.
Are we just spiining our wheels using ICC profiles in the tif file or am I just applying it wrong, or is the client's monitor not calibrated to see how much red they had using our profile?
I made color cxs to the honored one, reproofed till it looked good. I then opened the dicarded profile version and looked at them side by side - the color cx'd one where I honored the profile and the original file where I discarded the profile.
If the profile was the problem then I would suspect that they should look similar. But the color cx'd one was way yellow, less red than the one I discarded the profile. So, I wonder if the client's monitor is not calibrated and did not show them the true colors of our profile when they created their image. Or it could be that the designer doesn't know how to "go be the numbers" and that their mix was really red compared to what the real numbers should have been.
I wonder if the client, using a color calibrated monitor, should just assign our profile to get their monitor to show them the correct color, but not embed the profile when saving. Thay way when we receive the file with say, "US sheetfed" embedded, then we proof the file using our profile, it is converted in Rampage to what they were seeing on monitor.
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