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dfitzies
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April 18, 2012
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Home printing - RGB or CMYK

  • April 18, 2012
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I am designing a file in Illustrator that will be printed on an inkjet printer - should I be designing and saving this file in RGB or CMYK mode given that it will primarily be printed on a home printer?

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    TheDigitalDog
    TheDigitalDog
    Inspiring
    April 18, 2012

    If you are going to use the native print driver from Epson, Canon etc, you want to feed it RGB.

    Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
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      dfitziesAuthor
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      April 19, 2012

      Thanks for your reply.  So, if I would like to convert my 40 page document from the CMYK mode to RGB mode using Adobe Acrobat Pro X, what is the appropriate conversion profile to change my file to?  Colormatch RGB?  Apple RGB? 

      Thanks in advance

        TheDigitalDog
        TheDigitalDog
        Inspiring
        April 19, 2012

        So you only have CMYK? Too bad. At this point, ColorMatch RGB might be your best option due to the gamma encoding. Then there will be yet another conversion from ColorMatch to the actual RGB output color space for the ink jet. You’ll need a profile for that of course.

        Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
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