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Can you advise me about using ICC profiles with a NexPress?
September 25, 2007
Question: I've just joined a marketing firm that's running PDF files created from Adobe InDesign docs run through XMPie (InDesign Server) and then printed on a Kodak NexPress. Are there any existing ICC profiles created for this type operation? Or is sRGB the best choice? The NexPress docs say to leave everything in RGB and let the press convert even though its a CMYK press.
Posted by Tom Dennis, Production Services, J&L Marketing
Answered by Chris Reece, Product Manager, Digital Printing Solutions Graphic Communications Group, Eastman Kodak Company, www.graphics.kodak.com
The Kodak NexPress color press is built with open architecture that is fully ICC profile compliance. This means that in PDF workflow, 1) the images can be embedded with ICC profiles (either RGB objects or CMYK objects) and NexPress will honor it. 2) if images are not embedded with ICC profiles (on either RGB objects or CMYK objects), there is a choice to select one of ICC profiles (RGB profile and CMYK profile) in the NexStation (digital front end) at the time of NexPress printing. There are multiple RGB profiles supported in the NexStation, just to name a few (sRGB, AdobeRGB, ECIRGB) and multiple CMYK profiles (SWOP, ISO, TOYO, EURO). Customers can also install other RGB profiles and CMYK profiles to be used for their special applications. The sRGB profile is the default ICC profile for the RGB objects. Kodak recommends leaving RGB objects in their original RGB color space and then let the NexPress handle it, this will preserve/untouch the images until printing. In this way, the largest color gamut can be maintained/reproduced at the printing.
Q: Still in color management, are there smaller proof printers that do a better job of previewing NexPress work than others? Or will cleaning up the color profiles fix issues between proofing work and full production?
It is possible to export output ICC profiles from NexStation for use with proofers emulating print from Kodak NexPress, however, it makes more sense to use NexPress to generate proof sheets at the full production speed.
NexPress does not provide public ICC profiles. Rather, it is recommended to leave files in RGB native/original color space and let each output device convert to its color space at production—"late binding workflow."
Posted by Mark Vruno on September 25, 2007 | Comments (0)
