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Recently, an online printing service printed some Greeting Cards for me. The results were awful. When I contacted the website support team, they agreed and offered to redo the entire lot for me, but requested that I convert my files from RGB to CMYK GRAYCoL 2006. In Affinity I was able to do convert my ICC Profile to Generic CMYK, but no where is the GRAYCoL 2006 showing as a choice amongst the various profiles. Will this be a critical factor for the print shop as I sent my files without this GRAYCoL profile? Can I download and add the profile to my list of choices somehow for future, or was the Generic CMYK conversion enough? Finally, as the print shop did not specify, does one send image files for printing in PDF, JPEG, or TIFF? Thank you

I use InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator to produce material for printing. I consider it imperative that what I see on screen and what is printed match accurately. All three Adobe programs can have viewing set to match the colour space. By using this feature and wide gamut monitors calibrated to Adobe RGB I can be confident that CMYK will very closely match between monitor and print. No Affinity programs offer this treatment of colour proofing. In fact looking on Affinity Photo help it is recommended that RGB is used and conversion left to the print shop. This method of working could account for so many printed items having text that is almost impossible to read when it is lost against the background. Affinity Photo offers the ability to be able to add a soft proofing layer that needs to be removed before the file is saved but this is a poor substitute for proper proofing. Colour proofing does depend upon the use of suitable monitors and the few that are available are mostly fairly expensive, but investing in such monitors is rather pointless if the programs do not offer suitable features to match. Obviously this matter does not relate solely to Publisher and the developers must be fully occupied trying to meet all demands (and doing pretty well) but please consider it for not to far away.