Will my printed piece look exactly like it does on my computer monitor?
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There are some small differences.
Scanners and digital cameras create images using combinations of just three colors: Red, Green and Blue (called "RGB"). These are the colors that computers use to display images on your screen. But printing presses print full color pictures using a different set of colors: Cyan (blue), Magenta (red), Yellow and Black (called "CMYK").
So at some stage your RGB file must be translated to CMYK in order to print it on a printing press. This is easily done using an image editing program like PhotoShop, PhotoDeluxe, or Corel PhotoPaint.
Caution: It's best if you do the RGB-to-CMYK conversion of your images!
You will have more control over the appearance of your printed piece if you convert all of the images from RGB to CMYK before sending them to us.
When we receive RGB images, we do a standard-value conversion to CMYK, which may not be perfectly to your liking. We want you to be happy, so please, take the time to prepare your file properly. We cannot be responsible for sub-par results if you furnish low-res images or RGB images.
Be aware that it is possible to make colors in RGB that you can't make with CMYK. They are said to be "out of the CMYK color gamut".
What happens is that the translator just gets as close as possible to the appearance of the original and that is as good as it can be. It's something that everyone in the industry puts up with.
So it's best to select any colors you use for fonts or other design elements in your layout using CMYK definitions instead of RGB.
RGB to CMYK Examples
Example 1
RGB Colors (what you see on screen):
CMYK colors (printing inks will do this):
Example 2
RGB Colors (what you see on screen):
CMYK colors (printing inks will do this):
