[Narate]

As a rule with CMYK values do people still round up and round down?

I recently did a identity job and the missus was saying I should change my CMYK values from someting like;

6, 82, 67,0

to

5, 80, 70, 0

Ive never heard of doing that, also does anyone use or heard of http://www.eci.org/eci/en/

I .pdf kept getting rejected and all they would supply is a link to that site. Something to do with a colour profile.

[emil]

we received a logo from a prestigious company. it was originally designed in pantone colours, which they converted in cmyk, and rounded them up. everybody was disappointed when we printed the first batch of business card.
the second batch, converted in illustrator form pantone to cmyk, turned alot better.

[Narate]

thought as much

[Mr Fred]

Originally Posted by Narate

As a rule with CMYK values do people still round up and round down?

I recently did a identity job and the missus was saying I should change my CMYK values from someting like;

6, 82, 67,0

to

5, 80, 70, 0

Ive never heard of doing that, also does anyone use or heard of http://www.eci.org/eci/en/

I .pdf kept getting rejected and all they would supply is a link to that site. Something to do with a colour profile.

don't be daft.

[d*d]

never, ever do that

[lucidcreations]

I may be just being simple here, but I thought the value was the value was the value.

E.g. One company we design for has Blue and Orange for their logo (hmm never guess it was started in 1999, it was sooo in ). Their colours are blue = 100 92 2 2 and orange = 0 78 100 0. Just tried rounding down in InDesign and it doesn't seem to make much of a difference on-screen, but not sure if it would be more noticable on the press.