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VIDEO: Choosing CMYK Color Profile/Gamut Explained

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VIDEO: Choosing CMYK Color Profile/Gamut Explained

There is no such thing as a universal CMYK. The fact that an image is in CMYK does not mean the color will be correct for a printing press. CMYK is a ‘device dependent’ color space, meaning that the CMYK data will print differently from one CMYK device to another. Every CMYK device has it’s own color profile. Knowing which CMYK color profile to convert to from RGB is very important to the success of color quality. A CMYK printer profile is the...

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Gamut! Why Sky Blue Prints Purple On Press

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Gamut! Why Sky Blue Prints Purple On Press

I’m sure everyone has seen it before: highly saturated digital photography (RGB image), however the sky blue prints purple on press. The resulting color is a product of the color gamut your commercial printer prints to or the profile of your inkjet printer. The rich, blue hue of the sky looks very surreal on screen because of a polarizing filter or just using a wide color gamut such as Adobe RGB. However, when these rich images get converted into a smaller CMYK color...

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