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Actually RGB is better for professional printing. Printers typically have specific colour profiles for their printers and converting your CMYK profile to their
by 1stop 12y ago
Actually RGB is better for professional printing. Printers typically have specific colour profiles for their printers and converting your CMYK profile to their CMYK profile will usually result in differences you weren't expecting.
RGB -> CMYK (@ the printer) will be closer to what you expect (what you saw on screen).
- soneca 12y agoI didn't know that, thanks! I said that because I use an online printing service, and everytime I send a PDF they demand it is in CMYK. As they look very professional in everything else and the quality of the final product is great, I just assumed it was a best practice. Good to know.
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- Silhouette 12y agoSorry, but this makes no sense. You have the same issues with portably reproducing colours with RGB that you have with CMYK. Either way, unless you're working with calibrated hardware and explicit colour management, you don't have much chance of getting a printer to reliably reproduce what you saw on your screen; sometimes it simply isn't possible, because your RGB and CYMK representations aren't going to support exactly the same gamut.
- 1stop 12y agoWell yes you'll always have the Additive vs subtractive colour problem. But I don't understand how RGB has problems reproducing colours... webpages seem to do fine, and that's all they do?