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October 11, 2017
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I need help with color profiles!

  • October 11, 2017
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I created a navy blue passport looking document in photoshop.  It prints out great from Photoshop, but I when placed into Indesign, the blue looks purple.  I am using U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2 in Photoshop.  I went into Bridge and made sure my CC applications were synchronize. I have even tried saving my photoshop document into several different file types, .eps being my preferred file type.  What am I doing wrong?

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    D Fosse
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    October 11, 2017

    First of all, remake the file as RGB. Forget CMYK.

    In the print dialog, choose "let the printer manage color". Open the printer driver and make sure all settings there, for paper quality and so on, are correct and identical. In PS that's "print settings", in ID it's setup > preferences. These settings are application- and file-specific, they are stored as metadata in the file. You need to do it in both apps.

    D Fosse
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    October 11, 2017

    OK, I googled Xerox WorkCentre 7855 - if that's what this is - and it's a standard office multifunction inkjet printer.

    There won't be any icc profiles for this printer. Which means you cannot let InDesign manage color. You need to set it to let the printer manage color.

    And the file needs to be RGB, not CMYK of any kind. These printers usually expect sRGB, but Adobe RGB should probably also work.

    Oh - and don't expect much color accuracy from these printers. That's not what they're built for. They're built for high volume, speed and reliability.

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    robertf285822Author
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    October 11, 2017

    I agree.  it isn't a very good printer.  It is a color laser though.  I just wish that there was a way for two different adobe products to send the same color info to the printer.   I'm sure there is.  What is my next step?  I can't seem to get either a chat, or a phone number with adobe. -R

    kglad
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    kgladCommunity Expert
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    October 11, 2017

    [moved from Creative Suites to Photoshop General Discussion]

      Derek Cross
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      October 11, 2017

      EPS is an obsolete format. Place your native PSD file in InDesign in RGB color mode.

        D Fosse
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        D FosseCommunity Expert
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        October 11, 2017

        Derek,

        Thanks for your help!  I'm hoping D Fosse can help me work this out!

        Robert


        My problem here is that I have absolutely no idea what kind of printer this is. So what printer is it?

        But as far as I can tell it's not an offset press. That means US Web Coated SWOP is certainly the wrong print profile to use here, under any circumstances - and even if it was, the whole procedure would be completely different. This wouldn't be the way to do it.

        CMYK is for commercial offset presses only, and perhaps - perhaps! - a very limited range of special purpose hard proof printers.

        Standard desktop and office printers are RGB devices, expecting RGB data! If you feed them CMYK, they have to first convert it back to RGB. And if you don't have the correct icc profile for the printer/paper/ink, you don't let the application manage color. In that case you let the printer manage color - and give it RGB data, either sRGB or Adobe RGB.

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