Marc Riboud - http://marcriboud.com/en/
Mine's off for printing via Mixam. It should be with me within a week. I went low tech in the end, A4 magazine format, 16 pages, 200g paper, black and white.
If you DM your addresses I'll mail them up as soon as they're ready - assuming there are no problems with the print.
Kevin
Do you compensate the black? How much?
@Lefty
but change the ‘CMYK Profile’ to ‘Coated GRACoL 2006 (ISO 12647-2:2004)’ - this is Mixam’s preferred CMYK profile.
I haven't done anything specific. I create in the images in Lightroom, then edit in Photoshop where I convert to the CMYK Profile, the black compensation box is just ticked by default, so I have left it as is, then I save the image as a TIFF. In Affinity Publisher I import the images, resize and layout.
I haven't done it (prepare for print) in years, it's nice to have a "black compensation" option when you convert to CMYK.
Are you confident that Affinity Publisher's resize algorithm is as good as Photoshop's?
Also, I find that if one reduces the size by a large factor the White Point (and sometimes the Black Point) needs adjusting, particularly with black and white images.
Can we assemble a final list today:-
Definite
@Mr Perceptive
@kjb
@Lefty
Showed Interest - are you committing ??
@tuga
@ff1d1l
@JemHayward
A possible for the next Zine exchange
@eternumviti
@martin clark
Could those in the middle section decide which camp they are in (please)
3 weeks from today to send out zines within the group exchange
@Mr Perceptive - I'm having an absolute mare with the color management on Affinity Publisher. I've converted all of my images to the Gracol CMYK standard you mentioned and have been trying to export as a PDF. The images looks fine when converted and exported from Photoshop and also when placed in Affinity Publisher. However, when exported to PDF, the colours are off. This is despite me setting the document to the same colour space in the 'Document Setup' panel and applying the correct setting in the 'More' panel in the Export menu. Also, the colours looks fine when exporting as JPEGs. May I ask how you went about exporting as a PDF from Publisher?
Love a bit of colour management...its a complete time bandit - stealing your time away and sapping at your soul.......
First question is how are you viewing the pdf?
I've just done a test, and exported a page as a pdf from Affinity with an image that has given me nightmares when printing - On the same (calibrated monitors), I have opened that pdf in
Acrobat Pro DC
Photoshop
Microsoft Edge
Google Chrome
In Acrobat and Photoshop, the colours are teh same as when I created it in Photoshop/imported it into Affinity.
However in both Chrome and Edge, they are different - and different to each other
Does that help or has that increased the world of confusion.