P3D RETRACTION: Jim Beam 3-d SI ad. ghosting

[boris@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Boris Starosta)]

In digest 3756 2/2, referring to the Jim Beam advert., I wrote (ranted?)
too hastily:

>From: boris@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Boris Starosta)
...
>To me the ghosting in this ad appears bad because of incorrect color
>conversion to CMYK, which produced a weak and rather dull blue.  As a
>result, all the ghosting is in the left eye (red lens).  And it is pretty
>bad.  It _is_ possible to reproduce high contrast 3-d imagery with far less
>ghosting than is seen in this ad, as is evident elsewhere in the issue.

I was wrong, mostly.  Today, I looked at the SI issue again more carefully.
I also compared the Jim Beam ad to a high contrast image the I was forced
to work on in December (visible here:
http://www.starosta.com/3dshowcase/ODnavistar1.html) for the Overdrive
project.

That image has high contrast also, and ghosts about as much on the printed
piece as the Jim Beam ad does.  It was printed under the best of conditions
- I was at the press proof and participated in the final tweaking of inks.

I simply had forgotten how much trouble that image gave me on press, and it
looks like the Jim Beam ad is quite similar in image quality.  So, Ron
Labbe, please accept my apologies.  I agree with you that the ad is likely
printed about as well as can be expected.  In fact, it is the content of
the IMAGE, not the expertise of an operator or pre-press artist, that
produces the ghosting here.

Also, in reviewing the SI issue some more today, I was in fact unable to
find a high contrast image with less ghosting... even though that is what I
claimed.  I _thought_ I had seen high contrast done better, but my recall
was faulty.

Sorry, sorry.

Part 3 of my SI review should be here any day now.  Although it seems
almost everything has been said, that can be said...  And of course, I am
even more loath now to publish hastily prepared reviews.

Boris

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