Timothy Boyden said the following at 03/19/2008 08:56 AM : > The fact that your images printed better when you chose Screen/Web as > the color mode (which is counter-intuitive for a printed document) leads > me to believe Lulu is skewing their color profiles in favor of RGB > colors rather than CMYK in order to better match what customers are > sending them. This is why it is imperative that printer instructions > that are supplied to their clients are followed in order to get the > intended output. Printers are making assumptions to smooth over their > workflow, and submitted ad copy that are outside their specs will most > certainly not print correctly. >
Yes, I had independently come to the same conclusion... the problem being that there is nowhere a precise description of their requirements/specifications :-( So essentially one just ends up trying stuff until it prints correctly. Incidentally, asking lulu is no use; they just say, "send us the PDF and we'll print it"; I haven't been able to reach anyone sufficiently knowledgeable to understand anything at any greater depth than that. Doc
