Many laser printers require CMYK for accurate color matching.
Paul
On Dec 28, 2005, at 11:54 PM, David Mann wrote:
What are you printing them with? I'd just use RGB unless it's going
to a press, and even then the pre-press people would probably make a
better job of converting and handling CMYK.
If you're using a desktop printer, use RGB all the way. The printer
driver internally converts from RGB to whatever the printer needs for
its collection of ink colours.
I'm not sure what happens to colour management when you convert to
CMYK... all of the working colour spaces I have are RGB.
- Dave
On Dec 29, 2005, at 4:23 PM, Adam McKenty wrote:
Color management, yay! (not).
I'm going to be printing a bunch of scans, which need some adjusting
in PS. My limited knowledge suggests that it would be better to tweak
the images in RGB, then convert them to CMYK for printing (since the
monitor doesn't accurately display CMYK images, so I might be
tweaking them in the wrong direction if done in CMYK). On the other
hand, if the conversion to CMYK /does/ substantially change the color
values of the image, then perhaps I should adjust in CMYK...
Can I assume that the shoddy on-screen appearance of the CMYK images
is because of the screen's poor handling of CMYK colours, and that
when they are printed they'll look (roughly) like the RGB ones do on
screen?
Any thoughts?
Adam
