Louise, pay attention of what kind of CMYK encoding have lulu.com <http://lulu.com/>, what standard? like: 'swop v2' or 'ISO Coated FOGRA27' or 'ISO Coated FOGRA39' or whatever if the encoding is wrong, can receive problems like: - the color is darker - the color have less-saturation - missing overprint
first of all: calibrate your screen ______ Tomas > On 28 Aug 2020, at 16:49, Kidlington Voice Online <louise.ll...@kvoice.co.uk> > wrote: > > Dear fellow Scribus users, > > SCRIBUS 1.5.5 AND LULU.COM > > First, I am very happy with the pricing and print quality of the printed > documents I have had produced by lulu.com and I am not planning to leave Lulu > as my preferred company for my print-on-demand jobs. > > I am also a relatively new user to Scribus 1.5.5 but I am delighted to have > found it, and I am getting on well with it. > > I am very slowly learning through experience that final print quality when > produced on paper, is very much governed by the specific PDF settings of the > submitting software, and that each individual printing-press can have its own > preferred requirements. I have run some printing test from Scribus, but I am > finding it hard to settle precisely on the optimum settings in Scribus which > also match the perfect printing requirements of Lulu. > > For example, should I always save my PDF using Scribus with the option > PDF/X-4? (among many other potential options). Many of the options appear to > affect the reproduction quality of photographs which, in my case, see always > to come out darker when printed on paper than they were when I put them into > my PDF using Scribus. Have I got a wrong Scribus setting, perhaps? Too many > possible permutations. > > So, I write now to our group to ask if anyone else is using Lulu for their > print-on-demand? And, if so, could we possibly begin to gather and share the > particular set of specific print options which would be ideal for that > particular printing company? > > In other words, what is the best possible set of PDF options to select in > Scribus if you know that Lulu.com will be printing for you. > > I hope this post may help others too. > > Thank you. > > Louise > > > -- > Louise Lloyd > Publishing Director > louise.ll...@kvoice.co.uk > KIDLINGTON VOICE ONLINE > Promoting Enterprise in the Local Community > https://www.kvoice.co.uk > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus@lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net -------------- partea urm??toare -------------- Un ataÅament HTML a fost eliminat URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20200828/64e1c489/attachment.htm>
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