Re: Questions for a good color managed workflow...

Judging from your images, the proofed device color space is "FlashPressStoccato_v3,
not U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2.




Yea, I probably should have explained that better — back when I did those screen shots, I was using the printer's profile ("FlashPressStoccato_v3") — turned out, after going out to the printer and doing some testing, it was just U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2 re-named, thus we're back to using the standard profile. I should have explained that.

Instead of changing the color settings (with its possibly dangerous implications),
you could perform a batched action: keep the images in your non-SWOP v2
CMYK device space and batch-convert them to SWOP v2 just before delivering
them to the print providers.




Yea, that's what I'm having the printer do (I set up actions for them on their computers to batch do this) — batch doing it in-house caused problems because sometimes the people handling the files weren't doing this step, etc. so I was trying to figure a way to pre-empt this by having it done pre-starting the job. It's not ideal though. None of this is ideal really — I mean, I would love to have everyone doing the proper steps (including the printer) that need to be done, but that's just not the case so I'm trying to make it as automated as error-free as possible.

Ideally, if there was some way to export final, print-ready PDFs with all images converted to the proper profile during the PDF creation step, that would be great, but I've not been able to find a way to get this to work.

Regards,
Kristin.