Adjusting for dot gain, cmyk

So it seems we should probably be using ISOnewspaper26v4.icc instead of Fogras39 - will try that and see if it helps.

Is it possible to set that colour profile as default in an Indesign template - so it doesn't default to that system wide? We send a lot of other jobs to printers calibrated to the FOGRAS39 profile - normally we haven't changed this - and we're a bit concerned that if we have to keep changing output profiles jobs might get sent to printer with the wrong one.

Just a guess: Your screen might be too bright. If your screen is calibrated with a colorimetre, I'd try to recalibrate it with a much lower luminosity in mind (80-90 Cd/m2 or something like that)...

(Lou Dina explained all that much better than I (page 7-8))

Best regards

Is there any way of adjusting for dot gain / automatically converting to make photos brighter?

As Franz noted dot gain and other press attributes are accounted for in the profile when you make the conversion, so either FOGRA is not an accurate profile of the press conditions, or you system's monitor profile is not accurate. CMYK color gets converted into your monitor RGB profile for the display, so both profiles have to be accurate for reliable CMYK soft proofing.

This shows how the destination CMYK profile affects the converted CMYK values:

AdobeRGB to FOGRA:

And US Sheetfed Coated, which allows for considerably more dot gain on the conversion:

Hi tamsint97516221 ,

did you provide contract proofs for this print job?

Is a FOGRA color wedge visible on every proof?

Is the wedge approved to show the right colors in the tolerance FOGRA allows?

Regards,
Uwe

“Our end”? Is that on screen or on ink jet or proof printer? Dot gain is accounted for in the profle, however CMYK images are not managed like RGB are. Do you mean images or do you mean coloured blocks?

In short: we need more info...