Recent content by olekingcoale

Lukas is right (as usual), the answer is color management...but more specifically, it sounds to me like the RIP for your press may not have been set up with proper color management--at least when it comes to RGB colors. It's really hard to say without more info, such as whether the RGB file had...

Stephen: Wow! Thank you very much for the detailed answer, the excellent tip, and especially for including the action file. Wicked cool. Lukas: I don't think I followed your response, but that's ok since it actually was a dumb question anyway...there wouldn't be a different output profile...

Great info from all the replies here. I especially appreciated the tip from Lukas about the rendering intent...that's one I'd never heard before, and it probably explains some consistency issues I've had to deal with between coated and uncoated. I have a few questions of my own...please bear...

Pantone was pushing this new system pretty hard for a while, but last I knew most printers were avoiding dealing with it for as long as they could. We've encountered our first job that uses the color in the file, although the job is spec'ed to print CMYK. Adding to my frustration with this...

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