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We investigated the 4-color TIFF issue a few months ago. The issue may resurface, but for now we don't plan on producing 4-color documentation. It's expensive and it adds very little information value over grayscale. Colour Chameleon would have been our tool of choice had we decided to go to 4-color press.

The cold hard truth is that any screen capture you create on a PC will be RGB by default, and though you can fake CMYK well with Photoshop on a PC, if you produce any postscript on a PC, your output will still be RGB. It's a Windows thing. Colour Chameleon helps you bypass the Windows postscript issue to a degree, but it's still a workaround (though a good one).

To make a long story short, we decided that given the size of the TIFFs on our servers, the cost of producing 4-color output, and the workaround needed to produce 4-color-ready postscript output on a PC, we scrapped the idea completely and went back to grayscale. We were able to use PNGs for screen captures (which look just as good as any other bitmap format's rendering of a screen capture), and in doing so reduced the total stored file size of our graphics by about 90%.

It's cool to be able to go to IT and say "you can have these two 8GB volumes back... we don't need them anymore." :-)