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shmokes:
I doubt those photos are CMYK. I imagine they're TIFF just because that's how they were scanned years ago. But after reading this conversation I asked her why she still uses TIFF and that's what she said. Printers want it.
patrickl:
--- Quote from: shmokes on June 21, 2010, 03:38:14 pm ---I doubt those photos are CMYK. I imagine they're TIFF just because that's how they were scanned years ago. But after reading this conversation I asked her why she still uses TIFF and that's what she said. Printers want it.
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Seriously? I haven't been asked to use CMYK images in at least a decade. Even for offset printing they convert the stuff themselves.
They know what the color profile of their printer is and they are better able to convert the RGB image to the best possible reproduction in CMYK.
Also, don't you lose a lot of color when you convert to CMYK? I can't imagine that using CMYK for your originals is a good option.
RayB:
I second what Patrick is saying. Since the late 90's, printers have beeing converting to digital printing that can pretty accurately reproduce the RGB color space in print. Even Scott at MameMarquees prefers that we keep files RGB. Alas, in high-end print, and designing in Illustrator for print, I know CMYK is still fairly ingrained.
shmokes:
Yeah . . . I mentioned Patrick's comment to my wife and she said things must be much different in Amsterdam cos she works with a lot of printers and they pretty much all require files in CMYK. She does a lot of work in Illustrator, but quite a bit more in Quark and InDesign. I know very little about the subject, but it sounds to me like what you guys are saying makes perfect sense but the industry has not caught up yet.
patrickl:
--- Quote from: shmokes on June 21, 2010, 07:37:33 pm ---Yeah . . . I mentioned Patrick's comment to my wife and she said things must be much different in Amsterdam cos she works with a lot of printers and they pretty much all require files in CMYK. She does a lot of work in Illustrator, but quite a bit more in Quark and InDesign. I know very little about the subject, but it sounds to me like what you guys are saying makes perfect sense but the industry has not caught up yet.
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I can imagine offset printers asking for CMYK. It's just that we are duscissuing photo's here. They are usually printed on photoprinters and they work better when you give them RGB files. Everybody sends them JPEG files in RGB, so that's what they deal with and these days they can print much more colors than CMYK colorspace allows.
If you are using these photo's as images in a brochure (made in Illustrator or something similar) of which you have them print hundreds of copies, then it might very well be that they ask for CMYK. Though, in that case I would still not convert my photo's to CMYK, but I'd convert a copy to CMYK.
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