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Cms-Rip-Linearization and Profiling
Cms-Rip-Linearization and Profiling
Begin.
Step 1. Set Printer Properties.
Select ‘None’ for the imaging configuration on the “Set up” window in Wasatch.
Set printer properties using Print/Set-up/Edit/Properties.
Select ‘OK’ to save your settings and to name your Imaging Configuration.
Step 2. Linearization Process. (also see special notes at the end of this doc for CMYK ink limiting)
A. Ink reduction in each individual ink channel. Three different methods *.
*Use your eye to determine where to reduce each CMYK individual channel by locating
the patch in each channel where the ink seems to be reaching 100%, with no increase in
density thereafter. This is an easy fast way to reduce ink, but is subject to your judgement
and viewing conditions. (Use linearization file from C:/psfiles/generaltest018eye One.)
*Or you may use a loop to look at the actual dots of ink to determine where to reduce ink.
Using a loop may assist you in determining the patch where you are getting the best dot
coalescence without any printing artifacts.
*Or, a third method for reducing ink is by using a densitometer. Select, Print/Set-
up/Edit/Color Transforms/Calibration/Calibration Curves/Densitometer. Scan in the
CMYK patches. (The density values may be viewed on the “Original” tab). We will
NOT be using the actual densities to calculate the ink reductions, but instead the
difference between each density and the next. Examine these differences starting from 0
to 100%. Subtle patterns in these differences will reveal a “knee” or radical change point
where each channel has reached a maximum dot coalescence.
(see below)
(The process above may be simplified using Excel. After scanning the CMYK channels, click ‘OK’ to save
this data and give it a name such as ‘Densitometry Values May9’. Next, open these values in Excel.
In Excel, select:
File/Open:
C://WWrip67/
Configurations/
Select your printer name/
Select your “Densitometry Values May9” file/
Open the “densitometry calibration curves” file.
Next, choose the parameters to open the file:
Select “delimited”.
Next, paste the data into column “B” of the “Tabulate_Calculation” .xls Excel file provided to you.
The doc “Tabulate_Calculation” will complete the subtraction of the density values. The results will be
shown in column “D”. The ‘maximum dot coalescence’ will be demonstrated by the ‘radical change point’
in the differences. This ‘change point’ will also be shown in the curves (100% on the left, 0% on the right).
Use this information to select your individual ink channel reduction.
Now begin making your profile starting again with ‘None’ in the Set-up window, and make the ink
reduction of your CMYK channels using your desired method (Visual, loop, or density).
(Note: If your customer wants “stronger color” in their final profile, it may be necessary to select an ink
reduction value that is slightly higher than this ‘radical change point’ for each channel. So, you must make
a new profile adding, for example, 5% additional ink in each channel, and then completing all the steps
again).
For variable dot printers, make your ink reduction in Print/Set-up/Edit/Color Transforms/Calibration.
For fixed dot CMYK LcLm printers, always make your ink reduction using Print/Set-up/Edit/Color
transforms/Halftone Properties. You MUST check “Fixed Dot Ink Reduction” for fixed dot printers.
Checking this tool will apply algorithms in Wasatch that will automatically reduce the LcLm inks in
a calculated relationship to the CM channels.
B. Linearization.
Rip and print the “general test018eyeOne.ps” file again using your applied ink reductions and
now read in the CMYK patches using the Calibration/Calibration Curves in the Color Transforms
screen.
After reading the patches with the Eye One, click OK, and you will see the curves for the channels
you have read. Click OK again to apply linearization, and continue clicking OK until you are
asked to save this step to the profile you are making.
In this ‘check’ step, (since you already have linearized) print and scan your CMYK
patches to then view the linearized curves. Make sure to CANCEL after you view your
linearized curves. You do not want to save this ‘check’ step over the top of your
linearization that you have performed already above.
You will now use your profiling software (such as Monaco, Profile Maker, or Eye One Match) to
generate the patches for your ICC. It is best to use about 1500 patches. Save these to your desktop.
Open them inside of the Wasatch “Layout” window. Print them from Wasatch using your
linearization from the steps above.
Scan the ICC patches using your profiling software. Click ‘Next’ to begin creating the ICC. When
the ICC has been created, save it to your desktop.
Step 4. You will next open the Color Transforms screen in Wasatch and Browse your desktop for the ICC.
Click OK and save the output ICC with your linearization and give it a final name. You are now
finished.
Modification.
(see below).
Modification.
You may easily modify your finished profile by changing the input profile on the Color
Transforms screen. For example: an input profile of CMYK_plus30 will give you stronger color
from your output profile.
You may also modify your output profile by making a different selection of “Rendering Intent”.
For example: the “BPC” rendering intent will stretch the gamut for your black point and give you
more rich blacks in your raster image.
Color = Light
Color is not the ink.
Ink is only a filter of light.
No ink = all light = all color..
100% of CMY = black = no color.
I must see the media (light) to see color. Media = light.
To control color, I must control how I see media behind the filter of my ink.