Re: Asian printing (was: rgb to cmyk conversions)
Re: Asian printing (was: rgb to cmyk conversions)
- Subject: Re: Asian printing (was: rgb to cmyk conversions)
- From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 13:25:51 -0800
In a message dated 2/26/06 12:05 AM, Liz Day wrote:
>> 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.
Hi Liz.
Judging from what I saw, I would venture that:
- people work very hard indeed, and labor is very cheap, which means that
reworks and fixes cost only a fraction of what they do elsewhere;
- safety and health rules are skimpy at best, thus allowing for the use of
materials and procedures that are at times as potent as they are noxious.
And, I am sure, a few other reasons that escape me now.
>> 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??
That is for your financial people to figure out. I would not know.
But, on the other hand, what would be the cost of having to do it over, plus
having to deal with a very unhappy client, plus the effects of that on your
reputation?
I believe that if others are hellbent on what is rock-bottom-cheap -- and
damn the torpedoes -- one has the duty of making it clear that there will be
consequences from which you wish to dissociate yourself, before *you* are
made the scapegoat for the inevitable mistakes ensuing from their
ill-conceived choices -- I wanted to write "cheapness" there, but I held my
keyboard ;-)
Best regards.
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Marco Ugolini
Mill Valley, CA
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