[PRODIG] CMYK stripping profiles

[matthew ward]

I have just got off the phone from a large prepress house because some 
tear sheets have rather more black ink on them than is ideal.  (Like 
the paper is buckled where the dark image is.)

They originally stated that euroscale coated v2 would be fine.  
Apparently they have a company policy to respect the RGB profiles but 
strip off all CMYK profiles to keep the total ink limit to 300%.  
(AFAIK Euroscale is 350%).  Does anybody know how widespread this 
behaviour is?

And what on earth are we meant to do when the client specifies CMYK.  
And yes I did supply RGB (Adobe 98) as well before anyone advises me to 
:-).

Matthew Ward
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