I am very new at this. I am making some small cards and bookmarks and I just figured out that printing coulor might be different from what I see on my screen.
Before inserting cards into Corel Draw, I do preparation either in Adobe Photoshop or Macromedia Fireworks, because I am some familiar with those programs. Some images are CMYK and some are RGB.
I am not going to print it on my printer but take it to local graphic bussiness so they will do the printing. All I know about their printer is that it is digital.
So my question is... what is the best thing to do to prepare my work for that. And if there are some questions that I need to ask them in order to prepare it right, what are the right questions to ask?
For laser printers the best way is to use CMYK allways. For plotters, altough you can have better results with RGB colors the results is realtive to the configuration of each company, some printing services use only RGB, others uses all on CMYK and other use both
"Optimized for professional output" is a quite good configuration for most, but if you want the best results you must calibrate your sysem, including a good color profile on CorelDRAW. You can read some articls about color management on http://graphictechnology.com/
If printing digital you should be able to have everything in RGB. Use the printers ICC profile to get an idea (soft proof) of what the colors will look like when printed. Add that profile to the composite printer in the CM dialog and point the arrow to your (calibrated and profiled) monitor.
Thanks for your help!
I get the idea what I have to do. I guess the rest I will just have to learn from my own experience.
Thanks again!
<Pink> wrote in message news:77986@coreldraw.com... I get the idea what I have to do. I guess the rest I will just have to learn from my own experience.