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Originally Posted by Phil
Thank you.
I will have to speak to the print shop again and ask if they can give me the print profile.
Is CMYK a fixed colour space or is it variable?
I am really amazed at how complicated it is.
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So basically cameras and monitors etc use an RGB colour space, the size of that gamut varies hugely. For example when you shoot a RAW image and then compress it into a jpeg, the colour space compressed down too.
Printers don’t use RGB, their colour space is made of CMYK so the ICC profiles are vital to ensure the perfect colour match is achieved.
Think of the red colour scheme of Coca-Cola of the purple colour of Cadbury, it’s vital those iconic brand colours are accurately reproduced.
I think there are some newer RGB printers but even so, they still require an accurate ICC profile for that media and the output monitor would have to be calibrated correctly too.
Some high end Nikon’s can shoot a 24 bit colour gamut, but it’s invisible to the human eye, even if you have a monitor that’s capable of displaying it all. Lol
It’s quite a deep subject really