Commercial Printing conversions

[The Analyser]

We keep sending our artwork to a commercial printer and it prints the Yellow
in a greenish colour. They mentioned to us that we are sending the artwork in
RGB format and that we must change it to CMYK. We have gone to TOOLS >
COMMERCIAL PRINTER TOOLS > COLOUR PRINTING > THEN PROCESS COLOURS CMYK.
However for clipart, pictures and RGB logo design, it does not seem to tell
us the colours used in the publication. It always tells us the CMYK on
designs created by publisher, but not Clipart, pictures or Logo Design. If we
send this to the commercial printer, will everything be changed into CMYK
regardless of the inability to analyse the CMYK on clipart, pictures and
CMYK.

PS We also have the Adobe Acrobat Distiller (7.0) and then when we go to
advanced print setting in Composite CMYK with a tick in Print CMYK by
default, we are faced with a message that states “When you create a
postscript file you have to send the host fonts. Please go to the printer
properties, “ADOBE PDF SETTINGS†page and turn OFF the option “Do not send
fonts to Distillerâ€. What does this mean?

I feel we are at the brink of solving all of this, so your response would be
much appreciated.

 

[anyone]

Need more information. How is this being printed, on press or thru a copier,
what qty? Most copier engines will produce better results converting the rgb
than Publisher will.

We keep sending our artwork to a commercial printer and it prints the
Yellow
in a greenish colour. They mentioned to us that we are sending the artwork
in
RGB format and that we must change it to CMYK. We have gone to TOOLS >
COMMERCIAL PRINTER TOOLS > COLOUR PRINTING > THEN PROCESS COLOURS CMYK.
However for clipart, pictures and RGB logo design, it does not seem to
tell
us the colours used in the publication. It always tells us the CMYK on
designs created by publisher, but not Clipart, pictures or Logo Design. If
we
send this to the commercial printer, will everything be changed into CMYK
regardless of the inability to analyse the CMYK on clipart, pictures and
CMYK.
Yes

PS We also have the Adobe Acrobat Distiller (7.0) and then when we go to
advanced print setting in Composite CMYK with a tick in Print CMYK by
default, we are faced with a message that states "When you create a
postscript file you have to send the host fonts. Please go to the printer
properties, "ADOBE PDF SETTINGS" page and turn OFF the option "Do not send
fonts to Distiller". What does this mean?

Go the other route. Create Postscript file from Publisher and open the .ps
file with Distiller.
When you are "Saving As" .ps file, choose Adobe PDF or Distiller from the
printer name menu, select properties button, you'll see it. It means you
will be sending the fonts. Sounds like a double negative, but i'm a bit
tired.

 

[Mike Koewler]

Download Quite a Box of Tricks. It will create a CMYK of your files,
even if it has RGB images in it. The downside is the Free version puts a
series of X's over the page. Using the edit object tool, you can delete
these to see the result.

Mike

 

[Mac Townsend]

Your printer ought to be able to handle RGB files better than that.

I don't like Publisher's cmyk conversion, so I always sent Pub files to
my Linotronics as RGB and let the software there convert to cmyk and
separate. Comes put much better.