CMYK?

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Pat

Preparing my printcompany dude of my forthcoming manuscript for a company
catalogue that has to be printed, he raised "a finger of warning" as I told
him that I use Publisher in order to create the original work. As I asked him
why, he said that Publisher files possibly are not compatible with modern
professional printing equipment as it may not support CMYK printing?

Now how much trust can I put into this statement? Do I need to change my
printcompany now? Isn't Publisher a desktop publishing programme ready to use
just for the purpose of beeing able to deliver original files for printing?

Does transforming a publisher file into a pdf-file guarantee CMYK-printing?

Well, thisall would be nice to know as I really need to get my work finished
now!

Please give me some good advice.

Thanks!
 
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Ed Bennett

Pat said:
Preparing my printcompany dude of my forthcoming manuscript for a company
catalogue that has to be printed, he raised "a finger of warning" as I told
him that I use Publisher in order to create the original work. As I asked him
why, he said that Publisher files possibly are not compatible with modern
professional printing equipment as it may not support CMYK printing?
Click to expand...

Your print dude is a few years out of date. Publisher 2000, 2002, and
2003 have brought improvements in this area, in particular Publisher
2003. Provided you are using Publisher 2003, you will be able to output
a CMYK composite PDF file which your printer will be able to print from
without problems.
 
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Pat

Yes, thanks!
Thats what I thought. I'm using P2003 so that part seems to be ok then.
What I am a little puzzled about is that for transforming the Publisher file
into a pdf-file I am using a freeware (PDF995) that converts the file in the
printbox instead of directing the print to a printer. This step is automated.
Is there another option in Publisher where I first make a choice of output to
pdf?

Would be great knowing a little more about this before I'm going further...

Thanks again!
 
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Ed Bennett

Pat said:
Thats what I thought. I'm using P2003 so that part seems to be ok then.
What I am a little puzzled about is that for transforming the Publisher file
into a pdf-file I am using a freeware (PDF995) that converts the file in the
printbox instead of directing the print to a printer. This step is automated.
Is there another option in Publisher where I first make a choice of output to
pdf?
Click to expand...

I'm not entirely sure whether PDF995 will allow CMYK PDFs. Tools >
Commercial Print Tools > Color Printing is the place to go to set the
print output to CMYK. You'll also have to adjust the options under
Advanced Print Settings. Try making a PDF with PDF995 and ask your
printer whether it is up to scratch. If not, try creating a PostScript
file instead. Your printer should be able to distill this to a PDF or
print directly from it.
 
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Pat

Hi Ed!
I have set "Tools > Commercial Print Tools > Color Printing > print output
to CMYK." according to Your recommendations and saved the document in this
format. This file have I then saved as a pdf-document via "pdf995". However
analysis at the printers office still say the publisher file (now pdf-file)
is an rgb-file?

I am not entirely sure I did understand the part You mentioned of "You'll
also have to adjust the options under > Advanced Print Settings". In my
printbox menu I cant find any settings that relate to cmyk?

What might I have done wrong? Is it me or is it the software "pdf995"? Is
there another free pdf-software that You know will save the publisher file as
a cmyk-pdf?

Have I not completed my settings appropriate?

Much obliged,

Patric Jonas.

"Ed Bennett" skrev:
 
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Pat

Hi Mary!
I'm using P2003 and I just checked the settings according to your advice.
There is indeed the possibility You highlighted, so I have saved the file
accordingly and sent it away to my printoffice for analysis...

I hope it works this time...

Thanks so much.

Pat.

"Mary Sauer" skrev:
 
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Pat

Good morning Mary!

I got an ok from my printing office this morning. Now it all works!
Of course he's now talking lots of details about percentages of colour
filling in dark areas of pictures and so on, and right now that is more than
Spanish for me. (And thats hard enough 'cause I'm swedish). :)

I'm glad that the basics work and now I finally can get on with it.
The technical details, as I said in an earlier thread must come by doing, as
long as the basics are ok. If then quality aspects of the output demand
detailed surgery I will have to deal with it from there I suppose.

Let me just say that this forum has given excellent answers, so I will
probably not have visited for the last time.

Greetings,
Patric.
 
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Mary Sauer

Hey, Pat, that is good news. Thanks for posting your success, it is appreciated.
We are always here to help.
 

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