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What flavour of CMYK to supply
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What flavour of CMYK to supply


  • Subject: What flavour of CMYK to supply
  • From: Nick Tresidder <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:36:22 +1300

On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 09:51 AM, neil snape wrote:

If you send without embedded profiles , it shouldn't change
anything, as , you're sending CMYK that will be process as per their CM,
even if it involves transfer curves on a CTP setter. IF their printers run
the presses to Brunnerscale, Fogra, Dupont , or other standard densities
your file will come out as it was intended.

Hello Neil et all
As I grow slowly wiser I am moving away from supplying RGB to supplying CMYK as I have seen to many images go wildy astray when sending rgb to people with quirky setups, uncalibrated screens etc.

My question is this;

Quite frequently clients are unable to give me any information about the type of sep to supply, even to the extent of not being able to tell me if the job will be printed web or sheet fed, let alone whether it will be ctp or not.
Here is a typical email i received just the other day:

"anyway they said they wanted CMYK format, and that it didn't matter what type. They said they hadn't been asked what type before, and it would depend on what colours we wanted? Hope this is enough info for you."

Could you pre-press people please tell me what you consider the "safest" type of CMYK file to send in this situation SWOP? custom setup?GCR? UCR? TIL ? max black? black/white points?

I realise there are many, many variables here but in the absence of more info from some clients what do I give them?
regards
Nick Tresidder
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