OT? Colors in UK vs US

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JRH
Feb 16, 2004
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Please accept my apologies if this is a little off topic.

I live in the UK and have engaged a graphic designer in the US to do some design work for me in Photoshop. I would like to know if there is any color correction needed or special requirements I need to specify in order to print the final work in England.

Many thanks
John
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-xiray-
Feb 16, 2004
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 21:29:53 -0000, "JRH"
wrote:

Please accept my apologies if this is a little off topic.
I live in the UK and have engaged a graphic designer in the US to do some design work for me in Photoshop. I would like to know if there is any color correction needed or special requirements I need to specify in order to print the final work in England.

As long as the US designer uses ink specs (CMYK or Pantone spot) that your printer uses, then no adjustment *should* be required.

But then again, the best procedure would have your designer talk to your printer, particularly about how any of the TIF files in the design would need to be set to compensate for dot gain (or does your printer assume that no compensation has been done on the images and therefore they do that themselves).
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Bryce
Feb 16, 2004
"JRH" wrote in message
Please accept my apologies if this is a little off topic.
I live in the UK and have engaged a graphic designer in the US to do some design work for me in Photoshop. I would like to know if there is any
color
correction needed or special requirements I need to specify in order to print the final work in England.

Many thanks
John

I don’t know. We have to ask ourselves, "What is red really?" Maybe he’s seeing blue but society has told him it’s red and thus so perceived?
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Batmel
Feb 16, 2004
that’s a good question!

but I don’t think there’s a difference in the color..
I’m pretty sure that the colors are the same.. must be international.

this is a print screen of what the color picker in photoshop looks lik .. ( i’m in canada )..

pretty sure yours will be the same.. as far as the printing goes.. shouldn’t make a diff..

anyways if you find out something else.. post it here.

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Feb 18, 2004
On 2004-02-16, -xiray- wrote:
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 21:29:53 -0000, "JRH"
wrote:

Please accept my apologies if this is a little off topic.
I live in the UK and have engaged a graphic designer in the US to do some design work for me in Photoshop. I would like to know if there is any color correction needed or special requirements I need to specify in order to print the final work in England.

As long as the US designer uses ink specs (CMYK or Pantone spot) that your printer uses, then no adjustment *should* be required.

How sure are you ? Pantone colors stays the same.
But RGB -> CMYK conversions are different.

Per default, if Photoshop CS uses US standards, it assumes you are printing on toilet paper, and getting a dot gain of 20%. In Europe the dot gain defaults to 15%.

When I worked with DTP, I was told the CMYK colors are slightly different between US and Europe. One example is some orange color I have, In Euroscale Coated V2, it is CMYK = (0, 90, 85, 0), in US Sheetfed Coated v2 is is CMYK = (0, 95, 88, 0)

But then again, the best procedure would have your designer talk to your printer, particularly about how any of the TIF files in the design would need to be set to compensate for dot gain (or does your printer assume that no compensation has been done on the images and therefore they do that themselves).

Or make sure to get things in RGB, and do the Photoshop conversions yourself, or let the printer do it.
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Bill Ray
Feb 20, 2004
and you’ll need one of those big honkin’ plug adapters too! 🙂

BR

Batmel wrote:
that’s a good question!

but I don’t think there’s a difference in the color..
I’m pretty sure that the colors are the same.. must be international..

this is a print screen of what the color picker in photoshop looks like . ( i’m in canada )..

pretty sure yours will be the same.. as far as the printing goes.. shouldn’t make a diff..

anyways if you find out something else.. post it here..

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