hello everyone,
I am a photographer, I do excludsive books, as in perfect bind hard cover books that you can pull off the shelf at borders or kinokuniya, I used to use XEROX printers, epson injet, but recently have moved on to the ultimate hp indigo 5000.
I am using a calibrated (by eyeone) iMac G5, design on CS2 indesign (color correction off), editing photos on photoshop with RGB profile - Adobe1998 and desaturate color on monitor 15% (to simulate the print) , (I do not have a paper ICC profile nor a HP indigo 5000 profile) I export everything using indesign to a pdf file, my printer use a PC Windows( I suppose it is a standard indigo machine) to rip and print on Maple Snow 150 g/sm uncoated paper and Munken Pure 150 g/sm uncoated paper, no color corrections is made.
my results, color is very close to what I see on my monitor, only the contrast, and desity is about 2 stops lower then my monitor.
current solution, to push up the contrast and curves and looks totally over expose on my monitor. but prints turns out just alright, saturated, contrast, correctly exposed.
I have done some reading on color management and soft proofing using "apple Y", do I need to get a Eye-One Proof (very expensive) to profile the prints, use it for simulations on my mac and ask my printer to use them on their machine?
thank you for answering in advance!
han