Sending Files For Offset : CMYK vs RGB

[Jonathanp]

Hello everyone,

I have a client that sends it printing to a print house that only gets the color right when I supply CMYK files. The conversion process and the hard drive space on a 1300+ shot shoot is a nightmare. Is anyone else bending over backwards for the printer in this way? It sounds strange that they are incapable of handeling s/a/prophoto/RGB files. If I am not alone on this one I'll keep doing it, but if I am alone on this one it's going to stop.

-Jonathan

[grsphoto]

Part of the quote process with your client should be, who will be doing the prepress.

Unless the printer has a prepress area they likely don't want to touch doing the conversion... this is a step that can amke or break your images.

If you are doing the prepress, you should be charging for it.

Glenn

[Jonathanp]

Your 100% correct.
Cheers thanks Glen. Sometimes the easiest solutions are the hardest to find.
-Jonathan

[Waleed]

If you use Adobe RGB as your color space, almost no shifting occurs when the images are converted to CMYK, as Adobe RGB is a wide enough gamut to accommodate CMYK.. One of the ad agencies I work with don't even convert the images I deliver.

[grsphoto]

The shift to CMYK shouldn't make much of a difference, but the conversion to an actual printer profile can be a massive shift.

If you are doing the prepress, you need to profile for their press ( sheet feed, web ) and then adjust your images accordingly.

If the agency you work with doesn't convert, then someone further down the line is doing the prepress.