Colour printing tutorial please

[Canwoman]

Hello I'm new to this version of serif's drawing programmes. I'm using affinity publisher

I'm searching for a tutorial on the colour management options

 

I've worked out that it's best for (me) print processing, if you start and export documents or drawing with CMYK profiles, but this list of options about which drawing profile to chose during the design stage, is beffuddling at best.

I have searched the forums for "colour management" but cant see any specific tutorials

 

I hail from the BC era

design before computers 

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

When you say "print" are you referring to commercial printing, or at-home printing?

If commercial, and you have a print-shop in mind, you might ask them for their recommendations as they should know the best characteristics for their workflow.

[iconoclast]

Hi!

As an additional info to what Walt already said, what colour profile a print-shop chooses has a lot to do with the paper he will print on (coated or uncoated, newsprint, glossy or high gloss paper...). So it is not that Walt only wanted to pass the buck to a printer. E.g. there are also completely different standards in Europe than in USA or Japan.

[v_kyr]

See some of these for example:

• Affinity Publisher for desktop tutorials
• PDF publishing for pro print - APub tutorial
• Preparing A Book For Print with Affinity Publisher
• Desktop Printing - APub tutorial
• Jump into Affinity Publisher
• Print - APub Online help
• Preflight - APub Online help
• ... and so on ...

[DWright]

We also have the following spotlight article that offers an overview of the different professional printing concepts

https://affinityspotlight.com/article/designing-for-professional-printing/

[Canwoman]

5 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

When you say "print" are you referring to commercial printing, or at-home printing?

If commercial, and you have a print-shop in mind, you might ask them for their recommendations as they should know the best characteristics for their workflow.

Hello Walt thanks for the answer.

 

At home printing is what I'm after, although it would be nice to know what all those options mean in layman's terms, just so we can understand why they're there.

@v_kyr thanks for the list 

I did search in "tutorials" under various headings but 88 pages came up and hardly any of the first few pages appeared linked to Apub. Your list has some potential starting points

I appreciate the help thanks, I'm 60 soon. Life's too short 😉

[Canwoman]

2 hours ago, DWright said:

We also have the following spotlight article that offers an overview of the different professional printing concepts

https://affinityspotlight.com/article/designing-for-professional-printing/

Thanks for this 

It shows 

"Soft proofing

If you’re concerned that the final output may not look as you’d expect it, you can use soft proofing to get a preview of how your artwork would look before the export stage. .."

Which is available as a comparison of those colour profiles for each type of paper.

 

I expect for home printing, matching my paper to the closest one of these profiles will be what's needed.

I'm in Europe using an Epson ecotank ET 2826

 

 

 

[walt.farrell]

4 hours ago, Canwoman said:

At home printing is what I'm after

In that case, depending on your OS and possibly your printer brand/model, RGB may be more appropriate than CMYK.

On Windows, for example, if Printing from Affinity applications, RGB is better, I believe.