When starting a new file select CMYK for the mode before clicking OK. If the file already exists select the following menu options: Image/Mode/CMYK Select Choose Color Model, then Select Process Colors (CMYK) You will then need to send both the images and the layout file to us for printing. Click Link and click Browse to locate the original file and link to it. Using the following menu options does this: Tools/Commercial Printing Tools/Graphics Manager and highlight the embedded image. Please note that all images incorporated into a layout need to be linked and not embedded in order to maintain the CMYK color space within the image. Use the following menu options: Tools/Commercial Printing Tools/ Color Printing and select Process colors (CMYK). Working in the CMYK color space allows you to select the CMYK recipe, or "screen build", that gives you the results you want. We recommend a CMYK value of 100-65-0-0 to get a nice clean blue. Here's a common example: many programs translate the 100% Blue in RGB into a somewhat purple-looking color in CMYK. That way, you will have a better idea of how they will appear in your printed piece.
So it's best to select any colors you use for fonts or other design elements in your layout using CMYK definitions instead of RGB. It's something that everyone in the industry puts up with. What happens is that the RGB-to-CMYK translator just gets as close as possible to the appearance of the original and that's as good as it can be. They are said to be "out of the CMYK color gamut". Even though monitors always use RGB to display colors, the colors you see on your monitor will more closely match the final printed piece if you are viewing them in the CMYK color space.īe aware that it is possible to see colors in RGB that you can't make with CMYK. We cannot be responsible for sub-par results if you furnish your images in RGB. We want you to be happy, so please, take the time to prepare your file properly. When we receive RGB images, we do a standard-value conversion to CMYK, which may not be perfectly to your liking. You will have more control over the appearance of your printed piece if you convert all of the images from RGB to CMYK before sending them to us. It's Best If You do the RGB-to-CMYK Conversion of Your Images At some stage your RGB file must be translated to CMYK in order to print it on a printing press.
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