Kodak Spotless "ICC" profile

[meddington]

I received a multicolor profile from a client of ours to use for proofing. It appears to be generated from Kodak Spotless Toolkit and contains orange, green and violet data. In any event, the profile is not to the ICC standard and is not recognized by our proofing application (GMG). Chromix ColorThink Pro will open it, with many errors, but the data seems unrecognizable and when I try to look at the profile tags, ColorThink crashes. The solid colorants are reported to be CIELab values of 0 or 100, 128, 128, and its matrix based, and when graphed...well, its an enourmous Lab box seemingly encompassing the entire LAB color space. I'm betting that the profile is completely proprietary to Kodak Spotless applications.

I'm thinking I'm going to have to go back to the drawing board with this client as I don't think this profile is useful in any application other than one it was designed for. I intended on posting the profile here, but the damn thing is 15MB!

Can anyone comment on Kodak Spotless Mutlicolor profiles and whether they can be used in other workflows?

[fiatlux]

Contact Kodak - they can also send you one of their profiles to see how it compares to what your client gave you.

The last 7col Spotless profile I saw was 4.5 megs. ColorThink 2.2 couldn't open it. ColorThink could open a 6 col Spotless profile but the graphed result was an incomplete (e.g. CMYKOB profile had the Green part of the gamut missing).

Let us know what you find out from K.

FL

[bgt-is]

Hi,

May be these remarks will help you:

1. First of all you must to be sure that you have received profile from Kodak Spotless Toolkit. Ask your client for details.

2. CMS solution from Kodak is ProfileWizard and it is compatible with ICC standards.
You can find more information here:
SPOTLESS Printing Solution - Kodak Graphic Communications Group
PROFILE WIZARD Software - Kodak Graphic Communications Group

3. Are you have ProfleMaker? It can help in most cases.

4. You can upload your profile to Rapidshare or Dropbox and we make analysis for you.

Best regards,
Igor

[meddington]

With Help from William Li of Kodak, it appears the profile in question is corrupt. A separate profile generated from Kodak Spotless Toolkit is recognized by our software and shows no errors in ColorThink Pro. Thanks to everyone who responded!

[marktonk]

Hey meddington,

Did the profile in question come from Congress?

Regards,

Mark

With Help from William Li of Kodak, it appears the profile in question is corrupt. A separate profile generated from Kodak Spotless Toolkit is recognized by our software and shows no errors in ColorThink Pro. Thanks to everyone who responded!

[meddington]

Hey meddington,

Did the profile in question come from Congress?

Not sure...if the next profile I get has a new name but is essentially the same, as useless or worse, than its a possibility. I expected to see a "public option" profile tag, but it has become bastardized beyond recognition.

[gordo]

Not sure...if the next profile I get has a new name but is essentially the same, as useless or worse, than its a possibility. I expected to see a "public option" profile tag, but it has become bastardized beyond recognition.

Since the profile came from Canada, is workflow agnostic and can be easily corrupted it's obviously a socialist Trojan Horse.

gordon p