PDF Export

[Curious7]

Hello,

Just want to know if someone can tell me what I have done wrong, while exporting my file for the on-line printing company.

It lost its glow and the black intensity is lost, colours are a bit grey and faded. I've tried PDF/X-1a:2003, PDF/X-3:2003 and PDF/X-4. They all get greyish and full when opened as Pdf.s. The closest the afpub original is when exported as "PDF for Print", but the printing company ask for PDF-Standard: PDF X1a:2001 1,3.

Colour space is set to CMYK, Colour profile is set to ISO Coated v2 300% (ECI) as that's what the printer ask for.

 

Any ideas to help me out?

Kind regards

Curious7

 

 

[loukash]

5 hours ago, Curious7 said:

the black intensity is lost, colours are a bit grey and faded

5 hours ago, Curious7 said:

ISO Coated v2 300% (ECI)

That's exactly what this profile is supposed to do: reduce print color density so that nowhere is more than 300 % color printed. (CMYK can theoretically print 4×100%, practically it's a Bad Idea™ though, hence "ISO Coated v2 300%".)

In general, what you're then seeing is just an approximation of what's going to be printed, somewhat relative to your display RGB color gamut which will always be much broader than the CMYK color space.

[Curious7]

Many thanks Loukash,

but what "Preference settings" would you suggest to keep the clarity and colour after the PDF export?

Enclosed is the greyish pdf and the then a screens shot.

Kristen Gnosis Omslag fram1.pdf

[Curious7]

I have set the clou profile in the source document to the same (ISO Coated v2 300%) as the printer asks for, and the colour format to CMYK/8.

Do you have a suggestion?

The funny thing is that the PDFs came out perfectly with the same settings as now in nov. 2019 with the A Pub version at that time. Something must have happened since then? My settings are the same.

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[Curious7]

Thanks for your replys.

As I remember from 2019 I have not changed colour profiles, since my print shop asks for the ISO Coated v2 300%. I just noted that the booklets I made in 2019 and early 2020 came out more or less identical as PDFs as well as the printed outcome from the printshop. Now, my small magazine from dec. 2020 and March 2021 turned out more grey than before in the Export process. The printed magazine from printshop is more or less identical to the pdf. I'm not so advanced to follow all in your discussions, what I know is that I have used the ISO Coated v2 300% profile (downloaded from the on-line printers webpage. Up til now I exported it as PDF/4 as that's what they asked me to do. So, from my settings, nothing is changed, only a more greyish pdf outcome. I'm on an Imac 27" 2019, OS 10.14.6 Mojave. What to do?

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