Re: PS CMYK Conversions
Re: PS CMYK Conversions
- Subject: Re: PS CMYK Conversions
- From: "Richard Apollo" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:48:34 -0500
> Maybe we
> should also discuss when, where and by whom this work should be done,
> and why so many printers are still asking for CMYK images from their
> customers...
Well, there are a couple of reasons:
1) Printing happens in CMYK, not RGB. It is/was more efficient for us in the print world to have the images all ready in CMYK.
2) You end up mixing color modes. You've got images in RGB, there is black text throughout, maybe spot colors... Mixed color pieces are much more difficult to deal with.
3) PDF workflow. Take the mixed color bag, roll it into a PDF and the complexities compound.
4) There's the question of limited liability. If/when they don't like the print, folks are quick to point a finger. If we in prepress haven't done anything to the files then it's easier for us (and the whole company) to avoid blame.
5) Oh, yeah - there's the bit about being inherently evil and all.
> From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: PS CMYK Conversions
> To: ColorSync Users Mailing List <colorsync- email@hidden>
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> In a message dated 8/15/08 8:50 AM, Mike Strickler wrote:
>
>> Maybe we should also discuss when, where and by whom this work should
>> be done, and why so many printers are still asking for CMYK images
>> from their customers...
>
> Because many of them (a) simply refuse on principle any need to update their
> services to include color- managed techniques and (b) want to keep alive the
> belief in their own indispensability, as well as the income stream from
> laminated proofs that inevitably follows from this way of working.
>
> Now call me cynical for believing that... ;- )
>
> Marco
C'mon, Marco. Do you really believe that? Printers make money through efficiency. We want your files in and out as quickly as possible.
For every nightmare tale you've got, I've got 20 or 30 about "interesting" file construction techniques and folks who couldn't spell X-Y-Z.
I think you are being a bit cynical.
Rich Apollo
Prepress Mgr
Oklahoma Offset, Inc.
email@hidden
918-732-8168
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