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Re: Recommended graphics for webworks

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From: Sean
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 22:26
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Printing color is a tough road.

Consider greyscale for your screen captures.

Consider:

1) Getting a print vendor and working with them as early as possible.

2) PNG won't work for your source graphics--it is RGB. Go TIFF (and convert them to EPS, I guess, to get CMYK out of Windows).

3) Monitors are RGB. Print is CMYK. Somewhere you must do a conversion.

4) "Prime" colors--what are those? Consider Pantone Spot Colors or CMYK definitions.

5) Windows won't do it, the Windows OS that FrameMaker uses to print the PostScript converts spot and CMYK--except EPS files--to RGB. You must:

a) Convert all your color items to EPS before creating your PDF/PostScript for press (this'll certainly work for the logo).

b) Buy a tool like Colour Chameleon <http://www.grafikhuset.dk/ColourChameleon.htm> to fix the PostScript/PDF color information.

c) Do your work on a Macintosh.

6) Seriously consider hiring someone who knows about color, Windows, and offset press to mentor you through this first process.

Cheers,

Sean
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