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Why does everybody care that the GIMP doesn't have CYMK support? The vast majority of printing presses can do their own color separation, trapping, and register
by benjohnson 16y ago
Why does everybody care that the GIMP doesn't have CYMK support? The vast majority of printing presses can do their own color separation, trapping, and registering automatically.
Hell... GIMP would be an improvement: about a 20% of all print jobs are submitted in MS Publisher.
I can understand not using GIMP for high-end printing with spot colors, but that's very rare.
- lwhi 16y agoBecause a lot of people need to produce CMYK output as part of their everyday routine.
- irahul 16y ago> Because a lot of people need to produce CMYK output as part of their everyday routine. That still doesn't answer the question why do people care so much about CMYK. The question was why would you care about CMYK if your work isn't to produce graphics for print.
- lwhi 16y agoDo you really mean that? It sounds pedantic, verging on illogical. Why would you care about anything you don't care about?
- foljs 16y ago> Why does everybody care that the GIMP doesn't have CYMK support? The vast majority of printing presses can do their own color separation, trapping, and registering automatically. Yes, so why use a CMYK workflow, when you can wait until your design gets to the printing press and have the thrill of seeing if it prints as you want it to...