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Apologies for what is probably a newbie question; a
few hours of Googling has not turned up a satisfying
answer; this is one of two groups which looks likely
to hold the answer…
I am in the process of doing a layout in Illustrator
for a CD insert to be offset-printed in CMYK. All
photos for the layout were shot in black-and-white,
scanned into Photoshop at 300dpi RGB and converted
to CMYK, resized and cropped and saved as .tif
before placing in the Illustrator layout.
Particularly for the smaller-scaled images (think
head-and-shoulders at 1.2 inches square), I am
wondering whether it is best to convert these images
to K-only greyscale before shipping to the print
shop; I like the depth of the CMYK *on the screen*,
and the images are placed on a rich black (65/53/51/100) background, but I worry that normal plate
misregistration will do hideous things to the images
in print.
What is the best practice? I can live with the blacks
of the images being less deep than the matte they are
placed on, if the alternative is likely to be a mess.
Bob
few hours of Googling has not turned up a satisfying
answer; this is one of two groups which looks likely
to hold the answer…
I am in the process of doing a layout in Illustrator
for a CD insert to be offset-printed in CMYK. All
photos for the layout were shot in black-and-white,
scanned into Photoshop at 300dpi RGB and converted
to CMYK, resized and cropped and saved as .tif
before placing in the Illustrator layout.
Particularly for the smaller-scaled images (think
head-and-shoulders at 1.2 inches square), I am
wondering whether it is best to convert these images
to K-only greyscale before shipping to the print
shop; I like the depth of the CMYK *on the screen*,
and the images are placed on a rich black (65/53/51/100) background, but I worry that normal plate
misregistration will do hideous things to the images
in print.
What is the best practice? I can live with the blacks
of the images being less deep than the matte they are
placed on, if the alternative is likely to be a mess.
Bob
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