Mitch wrote: "I'm more of a retoucher than a photographer, but when I send files to clients (ad agencies/repro houses) I send CMYK eps files with maximum quality jpg encoding. This was common practice among the repro houses I worked with in London"
Then Giles added: "I have had to deal with these several times and have never been able to work out a rationale for it. Can someone explain, in case it is a radical solution to something? Saving as CMYK I get, but why EPS?" The repro company would want them as Jpeg EPS to save space and to save sending hi res Tiff files to the rip, they probaly don't want jpegs because historically the rip couldn't process them properly (and didn't quark not support jpeg without an extension in early versions??). However, the jpeg-ed EPS still has inherent problems of artifacting that a standard jpeg has! Hope this helps a little Graham Graham Scales I Colour Supervisor I Complete www.completegroup.com T: +44 (0) 20 7383 5300 I F: +44 (0) 207 391 6140 A: Canal Reach, 6 St Pancras Way, London NW1 0QG =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
