Can Anyone Help???

[chukberry]

Hi, i need help,

I am starting to make posters (large A0) posters, When i send them to print the are not as vibrant as they are on my screen or even when i print an a4 preview. So i asked arround and the printers told me to workl in CMYK. So i now use CMYK but still the colours are not as vibrant when the come back from printy. Can Anyone Help Me??

[bedlam123]

Originally Posted by chukberry

Hi, i need help,

I am starting to make posters (large A0) posters, When i send them to print the are not as vibrant as they are on my screen or even when i print an a4 preview. So i asked arround and the printers told me to workl in CMYK. So i now use CMYK but still the colours are not as vibrant when the come back from printy. Can Anyone Help Me??

You are experiencing a common complaint from designers and printers. There is no hard and fast rule for getting exactly what you see, but there are ways to prevent the colors from becoming drastically different from what you want.

Working in CMYK is the very first change you should make when working on something that will go to print. But what you see on your screen will always be different from what prints.

Make certain you have calibrated your monitor. There are a lot of software programs you can purchase that will make a big improvement, but be careful, not all of them will give you the result you seek.

When you print out your preview, make certain you lock up your layers, and your ink source should be at least half full, less than that can certainly affect what you see when you print.

Quality of printers play a very big part in what you get. If you are producing large posters, do not skimp on the printer cost. Printers that are used in print houses specifically for poster size and larger are not inexpensive.

One more are to pursue, the RIP program that you use can sometimes affect color shifting.

You may need to sit down and look thru some of the manuals for your equipment and see if you have configured things correctly.

Go to the internet and check for print problems like this with the printer you are currently using and see if anyone else is having the problem and offers a fix.

Hope this helps you a little.------bedlam

[chukberry]

Slightly Thanks, But i only print A4 at my house and get the larger done out of office. I use a company called ukflyers.com and they dont seem to be to good, i found a company called Posterxxl.co.uk although they are based in germany and take a while to dseliver but are fantasticly cheap and great quality. but i would prefer to use a uk company so i was just woindering if i havnt been setting colours right for print or something. i will show you a sample at some point.

[enigmatic]

Yes I have been there ...But hence you did not say whether you save the files at what res..I save mine for posters at 300dpi to start of with you then save that as tiff. you might be saving the same file to many times from tiff to jpgs.
this can distort change colours to much hence thats why it looks ok on computor...tricky tucker though .As for printing I use a company called Kodac over here and they are a o k....hope i was of some help to your frust....P.s
this should stop with shadows arround image...enigmatic

[Heruka]

Well, since the difference between what's shown on the monitor and what gets printed is the main bother, the fault is obviously with the calibration of your monitor. To ensure WYSIWYG, you need to calibrate it to standard configuration, like Bedlam123 said. I believe Adobe has a free tool for it, by the name of Adobe Gamma, which helps you to manage colour profiles. It should have been installed with Photoshop by default. Refer to the documentation and run the program.

[bedlam123]

Originally Posted by enigmatic

Yes I have been there ...But hence you did not say whether you save the files at what res..I save mine for posters at 300dpi to start of with you then save that as tiff. you might be saving the same file to many times from tiff to jpgs.
this can distort change colours to much hence thats why it looks ok on computor...tricky tucker though .As for printing I use a company called Kodac over here and they are a o k....hope i was of some help to your frust....P.s
this should stop with shadows arround image...enigmatic

Thanks enigmatic, I completely overlooked the dpi aspect of the problem, and you are right, that can have devastating results.