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September 27, 2019
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setting for printing in Fresco

  • September 27, 2019
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How can I set the file to CMYK in Fresco?

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Correct answer sueg58667637

Hi YYZ.

 

Fresco only supports RGB and HSB color profiles.

 

Sue.

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Joely10623436
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 28, 2019

Why would you need CMYK in 2019? We're living in the age of «media neutral» workflows…

MollyzMom
Known Participant
March 12, 2020

Book (print) publishing still requires CMYK.

Participant
July 30, 2023

No, you're just wrong. You don't need CMYK in Fresco.
All what you need is a decent soft-proofing mechanism and a few gamut restrictions/warnings to make sure your RGB gamut doesn't exceed the printable gamut of a certain CMYK target and that's it. No shifts, no clips.


CMYK is not a silver bullet to produce perfect prints, and computers do a pretty bad job representing substractive mixes on a screen that is emissive. And pixels are pixels. You can repeat to yourself that a CMYK digital file is actually CMYK, but it's ALWAYS an additive representation of CMYK values using the best approximation available.
So, basically: If you can see it on-screen and you think the colour is right, it's because there is an appropriate RGB value for that colour representation. If those RGB values are restricted to the gamut of your CMYK output, then they will print just fine.
Otherwise it would be impossible to print digital photographs because cameras don't produce CMYK photos, for instance.


Oh, and btw, I've been printing stuff on professional presses for the last 25 years. I think that after thousands of prirt runs and happy customers I can believe I have a slight idea of this.


Umm no he is not just wrong. He is just very right. Your converting work flow is just old.

Theresa J
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 28, 2019

If you need a CMYK file you can export the document as a PSD and then open it in Photoshop to do the conversion. Here are directions https://community.adobe.com/t5/Fresco/How-about-moving-the-drawing-to-Photoshop/td-p/10635833.

However you might be better off letting your printer do the conversion. Check with them first.

sueg58667637Correct answer
Adobe Employee
September 27, 2019

Hi YYZ.

 

Fresco only supports RGB and HSB color profiles.

 

Sue.

OHWEB
Participating Frequently
December 29, 2020

Hi, would you mind being more specific? RGB and HSB are color models, not exactly profiles.
Fresco on Windows doesn't seem to have any mechanism to set color profiles (actually, I couldn't find any setting related to colour management at all).
Does it assume sRGB? Is it managed at all?