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HOW TO ENSURE YOUR IMAGES PRINT IN THE CORRECT COLOURS WILL MY IMAGES LOOK AS THEY DO ON THE COMPUTE

POSTED BY admin on Jun 5, 2008 under Uncategorized

Before you submit your carefully crafted artwork for the label for the
company. When the printer prepares the artwork file for printing their
pre-press computers will RIP the file, converting it into a language
that the printers can understand. As part of this process your RGB
colours are converted into CMYK colours.

Computer monitors use RBG colours making up the image on the screen
by mixing red green and blue light, black being created by the absence
of light. In printing the colours are made by mixing inks of different
colours, CMYK, cyan, magenta, yellow and black, white being created by
the absence of colour on the white paper.

Unless you embed a colour profile in your artwork the printer does
not know how to make this conversion and has to use an average colour
setting , the result can be very different than expected.

The answer is for you to convert the images yourself before you
insert them into your CD or DVD artwork. This can be done easily in a
program such as Adobe Photoshop. If the result once converted is not to
your liking you can adjust the colours before using the image.

It is for this reason that many CD duplication
companies will not accept artwork with RGB images. They want you to be
happy with the result after it is printed and prefer to point out the
potential problem before duplicating your CD’s or DVD’s.

About the author

Keith McGregor is a partner of Strawberrysoup, a web design agency with offices in Chichester and Bournemouth. Strawberrysoup specialise in creative web design, content managed websites, search engine optimisation, search engine marketing and graphic design

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