Graphics Programs Reference
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to alter the numbers in your documents to produce a print. You lose all
control. When the print comes back, it had better be great, otherwise
another round of edits and printing is necessary. Unless you enjoy chasing
your tail and spending time and money on prints, this kind of Pipeline
is unacceptable.
Another urban legend is that endless conversions to and from multi-
ple color spaces will not produce enough damage to your documents to
show up in print. This usually is proposed by people who don't have very
demanding output devices. The truth is, you want to keep your data as
pristine as possible because you have no idea where that image might be
printed in the future, or on what kind of new technology. If all you do
is produce documents that will be output only on newsprint, you really
don't have to worry about having absolute quality. It is unlikely that
dozens of color space conversions and other heavy editing of your data
will ever show up on this kind of print process. If you're a photographer
who might be printing a single image for a magazine, a huge fine art ink-
jet print, a continuous tone sliver print, or your portfolio, why take
chances with your data? Once you lose data in a document and save that
alerted data, the original information is gone forever. Digital imaging and
color management are useful technologies because they allow flexibility
in image handling.
