is CMYK the best format to print in?
 

hi, I still have trouble saving images in CMYK mode. (i heard this was the best format to print in --- 300dpi ) Does anyone know of a better format i can use when printing images. like fliers. or posters . if anyone can help that would be appreciated.

knowing nearly nothing about printing, surely it depends if you've got a cmyk printer or not?

some print monkey will pipe up soon and point out that its not as simple as changing the image format to cmyk and save it.

which is why i'm not even going to suggest it.

hey its okay i found a printing company that figures it all out all i have to do is make sure the Designs are made in Microsoft publisher.

I did try many formats before but the CMYK i printed did not look right Adobe has about 40 different modes with CMYK (exageration...) but now i dont have to stress about that i was able to get a print done that looks professional.

so thanx

Always a sign that you're working with a quality printing company.


You might consider buying the book 'Production for Graphic Designers' by Alan Pipes.
It's a good book and it's the one I always recommend for designers working outside print who need to get to grips, as soon as possible, with the issues associated with designing for print.

Errors made when designing for print can be considerably more expensive to put right than with web.
A book like this will pay for itself many, many times over through the time and expense it saves you when first venturing into design for print.

I work across the adobe collection with: Set these under colour pref / settings.

RGB: Adobe RGB (1998)
CMYK: US Web Coated (SWOP)v2

Never done me any harm.

If your printers are using publisher, I would suggest you ditch em but as you knowledge of print is limited - why not get a book as bill suggested or sign up to some nightclasses.

Or just ask.

yea thanx i`ll do more research if i need to. Right now it`s for advertisement purposes i dont need to personally do big jobs. so using publisher is fine.

I would buy a cheap PDF creation tool, possibly Jaws PDF which will open your artwork up to a lot more printers

i've been working in printing graphics for quite sometime now. here's what cmyk and rgb is for.

rgb - for web and desktop printing purposes

cmyk - if you plan to have it done in offset printers. they're going to separate each color and run it to their machines. so basically all of the printing machines use cmyk separations. which compost of 4 colors (cyan, magenta, yellow, black).. each color will be printed one at a time to achieve the final product.

lol, MS Publisher. OH MY GOD!

why not send it in Powerpoint while youre at it

On a similar note:

I have been given a colour reference of ANPA 750. On further investigation I found that the colour was taken from the Photoshop colour palette and is a ANPA color - something of which I have no experience.

How can I get a pantone reference for this or a similar colour that I can then use in freehand.

TIA

if its spot just name a colour as that and make it spot, if its 4 colour take it from photoshop and just use whatever cmyk split it goes to as a process colour

ta fruit

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