Timeline for Export settings for commercial printer when using CMYK-converted pictures
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| Apr 20, 2022 at 10:04 | vote | accept | |||
| Jan 13, 2022 at 17:02 | answer | added | Wolff | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 13, 2022 at 8:48 | comment | added | Which profile does the print house recommend for this job? --> multiple print houses. One recommends PSO coated v3 and some other profiles. What i'd like to achieve is what is the best possible way to handle. To use PSO coated no matter what, or convert the picture again to another profile. Do you want to keep that profile even though it might be wrong because you liked the look of the test print? ---> Not sure. This is what I'm trying to figure out, what it means if I use PSO even though they'd recommend some other. Of course let's be clear that I'm talking only about coated profiles. | ||
| Jan 13, 2022 at 8:43 | comment | added | Good questions, thank you. I tried to squeeze my issue, but definitely easily grows. In the industry I work in, the usual process is to use a "repro" that is not the actual print house. I used the word test print, but maybe the correct word is proof. They make test prints/proofs and sometimes the final pdf-materials that will be sent to the actual printer. Depends on situation, timeline and budget how this actually goes, and not always I have total control on this. So, picture has been "proofed" previously for PSO coated v3 and I cannot proof it again now. Continue on second comment. | ||
| Jan 12, 2022 at 20:20 | comment | added | Wolff | I've been working on an answer but scrapped it because it kept growing and would end up as a mix between a book with everything I know about CMYK and a manual for InDesign. I need to know more precisely what you want to achieve in this case. Which profile does the print house recommend for this job? And what do you mean that the images have "been previously test printed for that particular profile"? Was the test print performed by the same print house that's doing the actual print? Do you want to keep that profile even though it might be wrong because you liked the look of the test print? | |
| Jan 12, 2022 at 11:35 | comment | added | I think my main question is in the 4th chapter, on which profile will indesign handle the pictures in this case. I have tried to find instructions for cmyk workflow for a day now, but there is none (or i cannot find one that anwers my question) since rgb to cmyk is more recommended. | ||
| Jan 12, 2022 at 8:39 | comment | added | Yes correct, Image has been previously test printed for that particular profile and that’s why I have only that in this case. Some print houses recommend PSO and some fogra39.But the reality is, sometimes I don’t get any specs from the printer (or even where they are printed). In this case there might be multiple printers, which makes this a bit tricky. @Wolff | ||
| Jan 11, 2022 at 20:39 | comment | added | Wolff | You have a lot of questions in one, but they of course all revolve around the same doubt. Just to make sure: Your images have already been converted to CMYK (PSO coated v3), right? Why? Is that the profile recommended by the print house? Or do they recommend FOGRA39? | |
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