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PSA: The press guy in Dayton told me to soft proof with the paper profile and it saved my 500 flyer order
I had a batch of 500 flyers for a farmers market in Dayton that looked bright orange on my screen but printed as a muddy brown the first run. The guy at the shop on Third Street said to turn on soft proofing and load the exact paper profile before I ever pick colors, and I figured he was just tired of reprints. I tried it on the second run and the orange came out close to what I saw on screen, maybe 90 percent there. He also said to keep the file in CMYK the whole time instead of letting the software convert it at the end, which was the part I kept messing up. Anyone else soft proof before they send stuff out, or do you just eat the reprint cost?