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Why is CorelDraw 11 changing colour of pre-artwork files

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Ang1969 posted on Mon, Jan 25 2010 19:45

The problem I am having is that I have created business cards for clients.  When I go to have them reprinted the colours have changed. 

Does anyone know why this is?

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Edward Thurston replied on Mon, Jan 25 2010 23:58
You are probably working in RGB and the printer is using CYMK for the printing. Are the printers' colours "dull" and /or washed out ?
 
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<Ang1969> wrote in message news:76378@coreldraw.com...

The problem I am having is that I have created business cards for clients.  When I go to have them reprinted the colours have changed. 

Does anyone know why this is?

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Ang1969 replied on Tue, Jan 26 2010 5:20

The colour had actually changed in Corel itself?

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Edward Thurston replied on Tue, Jan 26 2010 13:26
No, the "colour" hasn't changed but different colour palets to not contain the same gaumet, or range, of colours. RGB has more "shades" available than CYMK....sRGB even more. Your desktop printer / monitor is engineered to output in RGB values and  can print / see a bright red , green or blue that can not be reproduced within the different shades available using CYMK. Outside printers, for the most part, use the CYMK printing colour range (a "standard" since day one).
 
What format (vector,.png,,.jpg,.bmp,.pdf etc) does the printer require the file sent to them be in ?
What is the colour palet being used by the outside printer?
 
Once that information is known, help can be given towards the conversion needed.
 
Can you post a copy of one of the business cards effected ?
 
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The colour had actually changed in Corel itself?


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Graewerld replied on Tue, Jan 26 2010 13:34

Not only that, but different systems will interpret the colors differently as well.  We will get PANTONE-defined colors and enter those numbers to get the right hue and when we print to our badge system sometimes get a mess that then has to be adjusted repeatedly to match what the customer wants..

Let not the one who says it can't be done interrupt the one who is doing it.

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David Milisock replied on Tue, Jan 26 2010 14:54

What are your color management setting?

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Ang1969 replied on Tue, Jan 26 2010 15:59

I don't think I put my question together properly.  So far this has only happened to one business card.  Artwork had previously been done and saved in Corel,  it had been printed with correct colours.

Client has then come back to me to reorder the business cards but with some wording changes.  Upon opening the file the colours where different .

I was lucky enough to have a copy of one of the pictures and was able to get the cmyk colours from it.

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