Print to Press

This article is excerpted fromChapter 7ofAndrew Rodney's bookColor Management for Photographers. It is provided here as a counterpoint to a previously published article byNigel Williams, titledAn Approach to CMYK. Its publication produced alively debateon this site's Discussion Forum, which you may also wish to read. (Two cups of double espresso are recommended before reading, followed by two Advil upon completion).
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This chapter could be considered by some to be a continuation of Chapter 6. It is devoted to using ICC color management to produce files optimized for a CMYK printer, specifically a printing press. I decided to break up this subject into two chapters for a number of reasons. First, when discussing CMYK and output to a four-color press it’s not uncommon to see photographers’ eyes glaze over just before their brains explode. Those of us that have been using Photoshop for a long time can even remem...