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I’ve prepared some artwork which I want a print run of. I’d assumed it would go to a CMYK printing system of some sort, so I used the CMYK colourspace and have made sure all my colours are inside the gamut.
Now I actually come to get it printed in a short run (50 to start) it seems the printers I’m contacting are saying it’ll be done a digital printing machine. I don’t much care what it’s done on really, but just when I thought I knew a bit about the principles of CMYK printing, the goalposts move. 🙂
So, when preparing artwork for a digital printing process, should I use the CMYK colourspace, and work on the same basis as if my document were going to a CMYK press? Does a digital printing system use the same basic ideas of separation as a CMYK machine? Or should I be looking for a colour profile for the digital machine and soft proofing with that? Or some other workflow?
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Derek Fountain on the web at http://www.derekfountain.org/
Now I actually come to get it printed in a short run (50 to start) it seems the printers I’m contacting are saying it’ll be done a digital printing machine. I don’t much care what it’s done on really, but just when I thought I knew a bit about the principles of CMYK printing, the goalposts move. 🙂
So, when preparing artwork for a digital printing process, should I use the CMYK colourspace, and work on the same basis as if my document were going to a CMYK press? Does a digital printing system use the same basic ideas of separation as a CMYK machine? Or should I be looking for a colour profile for the digital machine and soft proofing with that? Or some other workflow?
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Derek Fountain on the web at http://www.derekfountain.org/
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