OUP has existed in a recognisable form, with its own printing division, since the 17th century, printing everything from the King James Bible to scholarly works. There was no formal university press in the city over the next century, but the university’s right to print books was recognised in a decree in 1586, and later enhanced in the Great Charter secured by Archbishop Laud from Charles I, entitling it to print “all manner of books”. A well-lit room in the daytime is probably the most ideal situation.Oxuniprint’s closure will mark the final chapter for centuries of printing in Oxford, where the first book was printed in 1478, two years after Caxton set up the first printing press in England. If you are producing a large number of prints it can be useful to look at them together in one place to reduce the variation in conditions. By previewing these changes you can make adjustments to your file (increase the saturation of red or green for example) to allow for these changes.ĥ. You can toggle between your file and the softproof file to see how colours have changed as a result of the printer profile. Softproofing is a method of looking at what changes the profile will make to translate your file for the specifics of paper and printer. All printers use ‘profiles’: individually made files that calibrate a specific individual printer to one type of paper with one specific set of printer driver settings. Like most printers, Metro work in the Adobe 98 colour workspace and using our simple set-up instructions you can have greater control over the colour of your files at the printing stage.Ĥ. You probably will have noticed the software asking if you would like to convert certain files to the default workspace? Whether or not you have set it up, you will be working in a colour workspace if you are using Photoshop. Photoshop uses colour ‘workspaces’ to reduce the amount of shifting taking place when a file is transferred from one format to another. Follow our simple instructions to mirror your monitor settings on your Mac or PC and you will be closer to a professional in-lab situation, giving you greater accuracy for the next two steps.ģ. New monitors are generally more accurate than old ones but they leave the factory with default settings that might need a tweak. In terms of monitors: we prefer NEC, Eizo, Mac or Lacie.Ģ. We recommend CRT or LCD monitor types and bear in mind that laptops are very difficult to work with due to the changing angle of the screen. You should replace your monitor about every 4 years as the colour accuracy does diminish over time. A brightly lit room, a tilted screen, or just an old screen: these simple factors play havoc with predicting the final colour of your print. The last should be used whenever you go to print if you want to be as absolutely close as possible to the lab situation.ġ. The first three are all set-up, so only need to be undertaken once. To achieve maximum accuracy you should follow all four steps. View your final print in daylight conditions Previewing your file with a softproof profile before going to printĥ. At Metroprint we follow all four steps outlined below and one very important further step: all our printers and processors are calibrated every time we load new photo paper.Ĭolour management for photo prints consist of five simple steps:Ĥ. Colour management is simply the methods generally used to control the colour accuracy of files and photo prints.
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