[Hidden-tech] Need advise on image colors for printing

Bobbi Melville bobbimelville at gmail.com
Fri Mar 2 21:39:42 EST 2018


Your best bet is to talk to the prepress people at the printer where it
will be printed. Each printer uses different processes on different
machines and different papers, inks, etc. The prepress people know how
their system is going to reproduce something and can guide you through the
process. Some colors are devilishly hard to reproduce accurately in ink
(like flesh color) on any system. Another resource to try is an art
gallery. I worked for one and we had to do postcards for each show that
reasonably accurately reproduced the artwork. We also did high end and very
expensive giclee prints (fine art digital prints made on fancy inkjet
printers) for some artists. An active art gallery could recommend people
and programs to help you.

On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 4:53 PM, Sam McClellan <sam at itabix.com> wrote:

> Remember that in the end, what you want is for the printed version to look
> good, not exactly like the original because that's impossible with
> RGB/additive color/glowing monitor to CMYK/subtractive color/reflective
> paper. Optimally you want someone with a trained eye who's done it a bunch
> because they can tell what it's going to look like.
>
> For manual tweaking I would recommend photoshop, gimp is really not as
> good for converting and showing CMYK in my experience. Not sure if there's
> another editor out there that does good CMYK.
>
> Color calibration definitely helps in any case, I only use the built in
> Windows color calibration (and trial and error) but you can get a good,
> cheap color calibrator:
> https://www.amazon.com/Datacolor-Spyder5EXPRESS-Designed-Hobbyist-
> Photographers/dp/B00UBSL2TO/ref=dp_ob_title_ce
>
> Sam
>
> On 3/2/2018 4:19 PM, Rich Roth wrote:
>
> yes - I was thinking that comment implies a color-calibrated monitor
> would be needed.
> it also means a color-calibrated eye, with the originals side-by-side
> or even the original artist.
>
> Was hoping not to need that.
>
> Rich
>
> On 3/2/2018 4:06 PM, Duane Dale wrote:
>
> Regarding Sam's suggestion:  preferably a color-calibrated monitor for the
> tweaking, I would think.
>
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 3:06 PM, Sam McClellan <sam at itabix.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Rich - I'm not super print savvy but I do know it's not as simple as
>> batch converting them if the colors are at all complex and you want them
>> to look similar - the color gamuts don't match so some colors will look
>> off (usually darkened) because they have to be modified to fit in the
>> new gamut. I usually bring them into Photoshop, which does an okay job
>> of simulating print on a monitor, and tweak them, then make test prints.
>>
>> Sam
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