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Print shop in Reno handed back my posters with gray skies, and I caught the reason in 10 seconds
I sent a batch of 50 posters to a printer in Reno last Tuesday with a bright blue sky in the art, and every single one came back looking like wet cardboard. Turns out my file was set to RGB and the reds and oranges pushed everything muddy on their end, which I only caught because I opened the preview side by side on my monitor. Does anyone here have a fast way to spot check color mode before sending a job out, like a plugin or a checklist you run through?
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angela1494h ago
What did the gray actually look like on paper though? Was it a flat dull gray across the whole sky, or did you get banding and weird green patches mixed in too? The reason I ask is that RGB to CMYK conversion can go bad in different ways depending on the file. A flat washed out look usually means the printer just ran your RGB file straight through without converting it, but green or brown spots in a blue sky usually means their color profile is off. Those are two different problems and only one of them is really your fault. Did you check the file info on the originals they printed, or just compare the preview on your screen?
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