Re: Printing in Asia
Re: Printing in Asia
- Subject: Re: Printing in Asia
- From: richard burd jr <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:07:46 -0500
- Thread-topic: Printing in Asia
I understand that cost drives printing to Asia, however, if you want to be
able to actually communicate with your printer....keep your printing in
North America. How much is it worth to you to have your color be correct?
Just my take.
Rich
> I would be too afraid to send RGB because, to me, there are more ways to
> harm RGB colors than to harm CMYK colors. What if their Photoshop is setup
> for monitorRGB or WideGamutRGB? Are their ColorSettings setup to honour
> embedded profiles? Or discard them? Or, worse, automatically convert to
> "SWOP"? The list is endless. I tried many times to communicate with the
> print shop but that was simply not possible. So I decided to fall back on
> sending CMYK, "US WebCoated SWOPv2" -- is there any other choice? And I made
> sure I clearly documented my proofs accordingly with big swatches of solid
> inks, even put the CIE Lab values on the proof, in case anyone could read
> them.
>
> / Roger
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: colorsync-users-bounces+graxx=email@hidden
> [mailto:colorsync-users-bounces+graxx=email@hidden] On
> Behalf Of Nipat Paiboonponpong
> Sent: November-17-10 12:00 AM
> To: email@hidden
> Subject: Re: Printing in Asia
>
> Why would you not send in RGB?
> And then, what CMYK you prefer to send there?
>
> Regards,
> Nipat
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
> To: Chris Protopapas <email@hidden>;
> email@hidden
> Sent: Wed, November 17, 2010 6:56:55 AM
> Subject: RE: Printing in Asia
>
> I know IDEAlliance is making headway in the Orient but to the point of
> blindfully converting to SWOP2006_Cx profiles, I don't think so. For sure, I
> would not send RGB files.
>
> My two cents / Roger
>
>
>
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