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MS Office Forum / Word / Printing and Fonts / October 2005Maybe a bit OT...cymk flattened .jpg printing color problem
I have been trying desperately to try to find the answer to this...THIS group is the only group I can find with any semblance of activity that may know how to resolve this or send me somewhere that may help. Here is the situation, I am using a program called The Logo creator to Make a simple 4x6 flyer that I am going to have printed by a company called Rush Flyers. They require a cymk flattened .jpg. That is fine, I can export to that format. The problem lies in the color that then gets printed. but when I export a .jpg whether cymk or not and then print it, the color is NOT what I want and see in the design. How do a get the color I want, I don't want to send the file to the printer and have them send me back 5000 flyers that are the wrong color. I have used Hexadecimal input to create the image background color, which should be and LOOKS neon green when I design, see... http://www.gotbonus.com/Test.bmp for comparison, the top part is what I see when I design, the lower part is basically what comes out when printed... I am on PC, XP pro, no SP2 Any ideas on how I can get the color correct?  SignatureNew Online Poker Players ! GotBonus? Deposit bonus code information for the top poker rooms on the internet. $25 to $600 added at Partypoker, Full Tilt Poker and Empire Poker. Details at http://www.GotBonus.com Create a PDF with a color calibration file. > I have been trying desperately to try to find the answer to this...THIS > group is the only group I can find with any semblance of activity that may [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > Any ideas on how I can get the color correct? > Create a PDF with a color calibration file. How would that help me? I need a cymk flattened .jpg with accurate color reproduction at print. > > I have been trying desperately to try to find the answer to this...THIS > > group is the only group I can find with any semblance of activity that may [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > > > Any ideas on how I can get the color correct? All commercial printers work with PDFs by preference to any other format. If their process requires a special jpg, they'll extract it from the PDF. >> Create a PDF with a color calibration file. > [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] >> > >> > Any ideas on how I can get the color correct? Pardon the top post... Thank you > All commercial printers work with PDFs by preference to any other format. If > their process requires a special jpg, they'll extract it from the PDF. [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > >> > > >> > Any ideas on how I can get the color correct? > Here is the situation, I am using a program called The Logo creator to Make > a simple 4x6 flyer that I am going to have printed by a company called Rush > Flyers. They require a cymk flattened .jpg. That is fine, I can export to > that format. The problem lies in the color that then gets printed. I would steer clear of any printer who wanted JPEGs for a logo or anything of high contrast, or who would not use a PDF. JPEGs are best used for photographs. In high contrast work (logos, screen shots, vector or line art), the JPEG compression scheme introduces artifacts: little splotches of crap color that sit in areas of otherwise continuous tone. > > Here is the situation, I am using a program called The Logo creator to Make > > a simple 4x6 flyer that I am going to have printed by a company called Rush [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > little splotches of crap color that sit in areas of otherwise continuous > tone. My mistake, they also accept tif's or eps's... "All files should be 300 dpi and CMYK flattened jpg's, tif's or eps's" Better worse, same? What would be the optimal( besides pdf) of the three? > My mistake, they also accept tif's or eps's... > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Better worse, same? > What would be the optimal( besides pdf) of the three? Unless the EPS is simply an EPS wrapper around a bitmap format (TIFF, BMP, JPEG, GIF, etc.), then EPS is the way to go for a logo. If I open a JPEG in, say, Illustrator, and save it as an EPS, it won't be any better. Your software must be able to work in vectors. TIFF is okay if the resolution is high enough to avoid seeing the little dots that make it up on the printed page. EPS is one of the outputs from Acrobat -- it's the .ps file created by Distiller. >> > Here is the situation, I am using a program called The Logo creator to > Make [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > Better worse, same? > What would be the optimal( besides pdf) of the three? > EPS is one of the outputs from Acrobat -- it's the .ps file created by > Distiller. Ummm, not really. Files created by an application for distillation are PostScript files; Distiller processes them into PDF files, not encapsulated PostScrip (EPS). Some argue that EPS and PDF are now one in the same, but they certainly share a lot of the same structures, that's not really correct. Acrobat (other than Reader) can save a page as an EPS. Ummm ... perhaps you should read the documentation a little further. Acrobat works in two stages: it creates a pure eps (.ps) file, then converts that to PDF. Normally the .ps file is then deleted. But you can specify that it should retain it, if a true eps is what you want. >> EPS is one of the outputs from Acrobat -- it's the .ps file created by >> Distiller. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Acrobat (other than Reader) can save a page as an EPS. > Ummm ... perhaps you should read the documentation a little further. Acrobat > works in two stages: it creates a pure eps (.ps) file, then converts that > to PDF. Normally the .ps file is then deleted. But you can specify that it > should retain it, if a true eps is what you want. I disagree, but where is this in the documentation? 1) The application (Word, Logo Creator, or whatever) creates the PS file (although there is probably a .tps file even before that). This is not an EPS file ... there is a difference. 2) Distiller processes the .ps file and creates a PDF. You can set up your printer driver to create an EPS, but that's a special case you have to configure manually. |
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