woodenflutes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Althouth I've done artwork for a long time, and even had some of it
> printed professionally, I'm a little clueless when it comes to
> understanding the actual technicalities of printing processes. The
> following is a printing process question. It's a real newbie
> question, so please forgive me!
>
> I am submitting some full colour artwork to a printing house to be
> made into coated adhesive labels. They have requested the artwork be
> submitted in the CMYK colour scheme. I'm familiar with the CMYK
> colour mixing method, but I'm not too familiar with common CMYK file
> formats. I always just saved everything as RGB.
>;
> The printing house suggested that I submit an Adobe Illustrator CMYK
> or PDF CMYK document (if there are such things), but I am using an
> Amiga with PageStream so I don't think I could generate those.
>
A late response:
I looked in my Adobe Acrobat (= PDF) and found in:
Menu Tools / Print Productions / Convert Colors... to a:
Device CMYK: convert (even a RGB, Gray and Calibrated RGB convert).
The Destination Space (gamut / color space?) could be: U.S. Web Coated
(SWOP), but also diverse Europe and Japan related Destination Spaces
profiles. Some are for my Canon printer, and there is a lot more (dot
gains / gray gamma / PhotoShop).
So yes, there is such a beast. But not for the Amiga...
Theo
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