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Color Management for Photographers
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Color Management for Photographers

by Andrew Rodney
August 2005
Beginner to intermediate
480 pages
14h 50m
English
Focal Press
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CHAPTER 7

Printing to a Press

This chapter could be considered by some to be a continuation of Chapter 6. It is devoted to using ICC color management to produce files optimized for a CMYK printer, specifically a printing press. I decided to break up this subject into two chapters for a number of reasons. First, when discussing CMYK and output to a four-color press it’s not uncommon to see photographers’ eyes glaze over just before their brains explode. Those of us that have been using Photoshop for a long time can even remember the good old days when no provisions for supporting CMYK documents existed. We old timers were brought up to believe that CMYK was best left to prepress experts.

The other reason to devote a chapter to printing on a press ...

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ISBN: 9780240806495