Re: printing color separations (was CMY/K)


Valburg (lkv1@psu.edu)
Fri, 08 Jan 1999 17:05:37 -0500


At 01:42 PM 1/8/99 +0000, you wrote:
>Katharine Thayer wrote:
>>

>
>It would be nice if you could send the RGB file to the printer and
>specify Separations as a space, but unless someone knows something I
>don't know, that's not an option. So I think your options are: you can
>decide that CMYK as created in photoshop and converted by the inkjet
>driver works for you, whatever problems might be associated with it, or
>you can add a RIP that will allow you to specify your CMYK space as you
>want it to look.

My understanding, as I've probably already mentioned to Katherine offlist,
is that separations generated by photoshop go to the printer driver as
sequential monochrome image files, so the printer driver has nothing
whatsoever to do with the separation process. Isn't this the case?

Mitch Valburg



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