Asian printing (was: rgb to cmyk conversions)
Asian printing (was: rgb to cmyk conversions)
- Subject: Asian printing (was: rgb to cmyk conversions)
- From: Liz Day <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 03:05:57 -0500
>> I am working on a book that will be printed in Hong Kong, and they
>> want CMYK files and sample prints for color.....
>> Could anyone give me some advice on how to best deal with this, that
>> is making the conversions to best represent the original files and
>> have a chance of printing well on this mystery press in HK?
>I had the opportunity to go to Shenzen, China (after a brief stop in Hong
>Kong) last year for a press check. My impression was that no one of the
>prepress people I met with in China had any working knowledge of
>color-managed practices.
If this is true, why is the quality of stuff printed there so high?
I too am looking into perhaps getting something printed there.
>If this job of yours is separated *and printed* in Hong Kong you probably
>have a much better chance of a successful outcome than if it is shipped to
>mainland China instead, and executed there completely. In that case, I am
>afraid that you will have a hard time trying to get a straight answer
>regarding which standards are being used for the final printing run. Work is
>done very much "by the numbers", from what I gathered, and I fear that no
>matter how much you study up on color management, that will not help you
>much in this situation.
>
>Perhaps you should think of hiring a local subcontractor (an Asian branch of
>a prepress house with headquarters in the US, like Schawk, for example) to
>supervise the implementation in close contact with you. That way, they would
>be in charge of understanding your expectations and accurately translating
>them into what meets them in that environment.
That sounds like an excellent plan, but it also sounds as though it with
their charges, it could end up being just as expensive as printing it here
in town. ??
Cheers,
Liz
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Liz Day
Indianapolis, Indiana, central USA
(40 N latitude, USDA zone 5b)
www.kiva.net/~daylight
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