Color Management Professional Premedia
Color Management Professional Premedia describes the principles of color management with a focus on both prepress and premedia processes, providing an excellent education on color management through the production workflow. CMP Fundamentals is a recommended prerequisite, as the learner should be familiar with basic color theory, graphic communication workflows and print production processes.
Who Should Enroll: Print, prepress, and premedia production professionals and managers
Instructors:
Roy Bohnen, Epson
Lou Prestia, EFI
Steve Upton, Chromix
Course Lessons
- Applying color management for the output device
- How to understand and achieve color expectations
- How and when to use or ignore embedded profiles
- Creating PostScript or PDF files with output in mind
- Different flavors of PDF
- Preflighting PDF files
Lesson #2: RIP Strategies for Color Managing Platesetters
- Calibration vs. linearization
- Impact of screening technologies on Color Management
- Press Calibration - 3 strategies
- Applying ICC profiles in the RIP
- Device Link Profiles and their Application
Lesson #3: Color Management at the Input Stage
- Profiling Scanners
- Profiling Monitors
- Proper Color Management in Photoshop
- Soft Proofing
- Printer Driver Considerations
- Making Profiles for Digital Cameras
- Workflow options: RGB vs. CMYK
- Digital Image Specifications
Lesson #4: Application Preferences and Color Settings
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Applying color settings and preferences within the premedia workflow including:
- Photoshop
- lllustrator
- InDesign
- Adobe Acrobat
- QuarkXPress
- Printing with and without Color Management Active
Lesson #5: RIP Strategies for Color Managed Proofing
- What is a RIP ?
- Drivers versus RIPS
- RIP Qualification
- RIP Calibration
- RIP Characterization
- RIP Conversion
- Quality Assurance
- Verifying a Color Proofing System
Lesson #6: RIP Strategies for Color Managing Large Format and Digital Presses
- Common wide format plotters, digital presses and associated RIPs
- Color Output Problems
- Impact of Screening and Resolution on Color Management
- Understanding Calibration and Linearization
- Characterization: Creating Media Profiles
- UCR to optimize output
- Quality Assurance of Media Profiles
- Factors to consider when choosing a reference color space
- Gamut limitations for color data and prints
- Applying ICC profiles in the RIP
- Configuring Rendering Intent Settings
- Conformation and Process Control
Lesson #7: Repurposing Data
- Digital capture considerations
- File sizes and resolution
- Color space considerations
- Assigning, converting, and embedding profiles
- The advantage of an RGB Workflow