The Optimization of Offset Printing Process for High Quality Color Reproduction (1) - Prepress and proofing -

고품질 색재현을 위한 오프셋 인쇄공정의 최적화에 관한 연구(I) - 프리프레스와 교정인쇄를 중심으로 -

  • Kim, Sung-Su (Republic of Korea Army Printing Deport) ;
  • Kang, Sang-Hoon (Division of Image & Information, College of Engineering, Pukyong National University)
  • 김성수 (육군인쇄창) ;
  • 강상훈 (부경대학교 공과대학 화상정보공학부)
  • Published : 2007.12.01

Abstract

For the color offset printing, it starts with input of data. The past days, drum scanner or flat scanner used to input of data, but now it changes gradually into using of digital camera because digital camera become popular. The high quality digital camera saves as a data(RAW format), sRGB which have built in digital camera, or Adobe RGB format. sRGB of ICC(International Color Consortium) profile is a standard color gamut of digital camera. Distribution of color gamut in sRGB is less than Adobe RGB have a distribution in ICC profile. sRGB also can not be expressed in some specific part, because distribution of color gamut in sRGB is not able to cover all parts in ICC Profile of international standards CMYK. It is more popular to use Adobe RGB than sRGB to do high quality offset printing and software basis color setting in Europe and Japan. In spite of this data basis, there is a difficulty of doing color correction between the color proofing prints and the final prints. To see how the software color setting effects to RGB data, this thesis will use Gretag Macbeth ColorChecker 24 patch which has the most general natural color chart to compare sRGB and Adobe RGB to check the differences of color changes. It will use the several factors that came out from the process of making ICC Profile to figure out the optimum In-house profile. It also compares the differences of using matt paper and glossy paper to do best quality color proof offset printing, and how the Rendering Intent effects the proof print.

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