> If you print on your Inkjet, you should use "monitor" since the printer > expects RGB input. For offset printing, "printer" is the right option.
Just for your information (in case you run into the same troubles one day): As it turned out, the printer had aquired the latest and best laser printing equipment there is. They used the "printer"-pdf-version and the output was identical to the pdf, but very different to the (reference) Lulu-book. In particular, reds looked very much brownish-orange, and they could not make it any more reddish although they tried hard. In consequence, the printer argued that Lulu had used offset for the art images as they were not able to achieve identical results and thought Lulu must have had the same problem. Having printed just one copy, this seemed ridiculous for cost reasons alone, but they held that Lulu would do this for marketing reasons. Magnifying the print, it was not easy for me as a layman to tell the difference from images, but the text revealed without doubt that Lulu does indeed print digitally: the letters are pixeled in contrast to offset, where they are sharp. Lulu would most probably not use secret knowledge, but still we couldn't figure out what the problem was. The obvious similarity between monitor appearance and the printer output produced from that same pdf file gave the crucial clue to the puzzle. After sending the pdf used for Lulu (RGB), they printed just as fine. So obviously their digital equipment expects and needs RGB. As we did not know, I sent them both RGB and CMYK versions, but somehow they didn't even give the RGB-version a try resulting in much confusion. The RGB version has some 240 MB, the CMYK version way more than 4 GB! I guess that printing people just have to learn something new when digital printing arrives. Why shouldn't professional laser printers have drivers doing the necessary conversion just as office printers do without saying? Some digital printing shops do require CMYK, though. Most probably they have old equipment with dumb drivers. By the way: pdfsam (pdfsam.org) does a great job - I wouldn't have been able to do this without - thanks a lot for the hint from the list and for Andrea doing a great job! Last but not least: I couldn't have done anything without Scribus! Thank you all very much for such a great tool! Also: I made 2 flyers for 2 books with Scribus as intended, but used other methods for the books themselves, producing sla-files via PHP and doing finetuning in Scribus afterwards. Actually, for the last run, I produced the catalog pdf part of the big book directly from fpdf instead of using a sla-file interstage, making 660 pages of 796 total, joining all with pdfsam. I guess that everybody is apt to do the same from scratch, so there is no need to elaborate about that. But maybe an entry in the "Success stories"-section of the wiki would be adequate. How would I do that? The create account link is http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&returnto=Special:Userlogin and gives a login screen and no option for a create-account-form. Next: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Scribus_Friendly_Print_Shops shows outdated information with respect to Lulu (i.e. Hard cover is currently limited to 6"x9") - I'd like to correct that. Werner
