Colour profile question

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Nov 5, 2007
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I am designing a flyer and the printers have specified a colour profile that I am not too sure how to set up in photoshop…

This is what they said: "Not less than 300 DPI as PDF, JPEG or TIFF in the CMYK colour range with the colour profile "ISO Coated v2 (Fogra 39
L)". Please do not use any spot colours or special colours."

Does anyone know how I can set that profile up in photoshop? I am an electronic engineer, so forgive me for not knowing what Fogra 39 L is… What does the spot colour thing mean?

Thanks in advance..

Reuben
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Joel
Nov 5, 2007
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I am designing a flyer and the printers have specified a colour profile that I am not too sure how to set up in photoshop…
This is what they said: "Not less than 300 DPI as PDF, JPEG or TIFF in the CMYK colour range with the colour profile "ISO Coated v2 (Fogra 39
L)". Please do not use any spot colours or special colours."

Forget about the "no less than 300 DPI" and whatever but use whatever max you have.

And try not to use any specific comment on all situations.

Does anyone know how I can set that profile up in photoshop? I am an electronic engineer, so forgive me for not knowing what Fogra 39 L is… What does the spot colour thing mean?

I don’t know what "spot colour" means, and I don’t know what "Fogra 39 L" means either. And wondering why you try to follow the thing you don’t understand? What would you do if I tell you to use a rope to hang yourself?

– Color Profile is part of "Monitor Calibrating" that we have several talks about "Monitor Calirating" in the past few weeks.

– "Color Profile" (not colorpace) is "Monitor Profile" and Photoshop uses whatever default Monitor Profile the system uses.

– "Printer Profile" is a specific profile for specific Printer & Paper etc. you either create your own or GOOGLE for available from manufacture. I belive Ctrl-Y is the Key-Command to toggle between Monitor/Printer profile, but you will have to setup the Printer Profile in order to toggle ON/OFF

Where? I don’t have Photoshop running at the moment to check for you, but I guess you can ask F1 for help (?).

And why don’t you print few sample before trying to do thing you may not need to do?

Thanks in advance..

Reuben
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Auspics
Nov 5, 2007
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I am designing a flyer and the printers have specified a colour profile that I am not too sure how to set up in photoshop…
This is what they said: "Not less than 300 DPI as PDF, JPEG or TIFF in the CMYK colour range with the colour profile "ISO Coated v2 (Fogra 39
L)". Please do not use any spot colours or special colours."

Does anyone know how I can set that profile up in photoshop? I am an electronic engineer, so forgive me for not knowing what Fogra 39 L is… What does the spot colour thing mean?

Thanks in advance..

Reuben

Under the menu item "edit" is a selection to "assign profile" or "convert to
profile". The printer is talking about a profile specifically to suit his press. If you can’t find that particular profile from the menu selection, ask him to send it to you. I won’t say where it goes because you haven’t said if it’s a MAC or a PC you are using.

Once you’ve either assigned or converted to the profile they want, save your document as a PDF and send it to them. Spot colours are those which are different from "standard" colours. Using them just makes the printer’s job harder wqhen it comes to matching the colours in your document.

I presume here you have sued the "mode" selection to change the document from a RGB to CMYK.

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nomail
Nov 6, 2007
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This is what they said: "Not less than 300 DPI as PDF, JPEG or TIFF in the CMYK colour range with the colour profile "ISO Coated v2 (Fogra 39
L)". Please do not use any spot colours or special colours."

Does anyone know how I can set that profile up in photoshop? I am an electronic engineer, so forgive me for not knowing what Fogra 39 L is… What does the spot colour thing mean?

‘ISO coated v2 (Fogra 39L)’ is a CMYK color profile. If you have that profile installed, convert the image in Photoshop to this profile by using the ‘Convert to profile’ menu. Do *NOT* use ‘Assign profile’. If you do not have this profile installed, ask the printer to send it to you.

Spot colors are separately defined colors, which will be printed by using an extra color in the ink set. As long as you start with a normal RGB image and then convert as above, you won’t have a problem there.

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Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.com
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reubenwilcock
Nov 10, 2007
Thanks for the advice.

Yes I was just using mode selection to convert to CMYK.

I found the icc profile on the ECI website: the file is
ISOcoated_v2_eci.icc

The problem really seems to be that I only have photoshop version 5. This version doesnt have the ‘convert to profile’ menu. I will ask someone with CS2 to do it for me.

Thanks again for the help – much appreciated.

Reube

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