color management needed?

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Apr 23, 2006
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I have designed a calendar that will be printed on a Indigo digital offset printer (Indigo 5000).

It involves a photograph and I would like to know if I should hire a Photoshop expert to do some color management to make it look its best.

I got the photo from a stock art site and I want modify the saturation a bit. But I don’t know what it will look like in the final print.

What do you think?
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Kingdom
Apr 24, 2006
"CNN_news" wrote in news:1145819894.673038.48220 @j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

I have designed a calendar that will be printed on a Indigo digital offset printer (Indigo 5000).

It involves a photograph and I would like to know if I should hire a Photoshop expert to do some color management to make it look its best.
I got the photo from a stock art site and I want modify the saturation a bit. But I don’t know what it will look like in the final print.
What do you think?

Adjust the saturation and print it on your home printer if it looks ok it will probably be fine. printer usualy proofs your document anyway so you can see an actual print before the print run.

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PacMan
Apr 25, 2006
On 2006-04-23 16:18:14 -0300, "CNN_news" said:

I have designed a calendar that will be printed on a Indigo digital offset printer (Indigo 5000).

It involves a photograph and I would like to know if I should hire a Photoshop expert to do some color management to make it look its best.
I got the photo from a stock art site and I want modify the saturation a bit. But I don’t know what it will look like in the final print.
What do you think?

1. Get color profiles from the printer or at the very minimum talk to a professional that works there and get some info on color profiles that would come close. you need to match them not anyone else.

2. load those profiles in photoshop

3. make those profiles active color settings or got to proof setup and select them.

4. change the desaturate monitor setting in color profiles. Make it 15-20%.

5. Color correct highlights, shadows ( levels) and finally midones.( curves) to commercial press standards.

6. Unsharpen mask. Less is better than too much.

7. save without color profiles and 300DPI tif or what the printer requires. PDF/JPG/EPS is a no no if image only. tif is better ( uncompressed)

8. Get a proof from the printer or go on location during press run if possible.

more issues:

a- Make sure you monitor is color calibrated and if it’s a CRT monitor let it warm up for 1/2 hour before color correcting.
b- Lighting in the room? should be neutral gray on walls and good lights. c- Paper your printer is printing on? is it coated, heavy? Uou can’t print hard proofs unless your paper brightness is close and same porous match as the printer.

and one finally thing,
Good luck on a decent pressman 🙂
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