supplying RGB files to European printers
supplying RGB files to European printers
- Subject: supplying RGB files to European printers
- From: "Christopher Bain" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:03:58 -0500
- Thread-topic: Colorsync-users Digest, Vol 3, Issue 27
Title: supplying RGB files to European printers
>I'm supplying some files for printing in Europe (Germany). The
>printer has asked for PDF X-3 files, all images and all vector art as
>RGB.
>In the listmembers' experience, how common is supplying RGB print
>files to printers in North America or abroad?
>Matt Larmour
They probably want RGB so that they can control the CMYK conversion. Several printers we use have reported bad experiences with clients who have sent CMYK files that are using the wrong flavor of CMYK, for other presses, not realizing how device dependent CMYK is... they therefore get unpredictable results (predictably :) ). When we are supplied with the correct CMYK ICC profile and do the conversions ourselves, we get very good results. Just REMEMBER to save the original RGB files so that if you go back to press in a year or three, and have to use a different printer in a different part of the world, you can do the CMYK conversions all over again using the CMYK ICC profile of the new printer.
Chris Bain
Photography Director | Barnes & Noble Publishing
122 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011
212-633-3358 | email@hidden
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