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Do you honor or ignore embedded profiles?
I did some searching before creating this post and wasn't able to find many threads. I work at a book publisher and we have a sister company in London. We do printing all over the globe (primarily Asia, but also US, UK, Italy, Mexico). We, my company and our sister company, are trying to create a group wide CMYK working space and tag all of our files with this. This way when we share files we are not guessing at what conditions the original creator was viewing their files. The tricky part is that our file are sent to different printers all the time so it's hard to come up with a profile that would be best for overall purposes. I began to contact most of my US printers to see what they prefer and the most common response I received was that they ignore or prefer not to have embedded profiles. I was somewhat surprised to hear this but after speaking with them it made more sense, as they explained most clients do not understand color management, or even know what a profile actually does.
How about you? Is your shop linear or profile based? Do you prefer to receive tagged files?
Also, was looking for feedback on using CM is InDesign. We are about to make the switch from Quark to ID and are looking into using CM throughout CS.
Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
Gregg
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