

Maybe not near as vibrant as what you are seeing on the screen, but it's better than what you get with cmyk
HOW TO CONVERT RGB TO CMYK IN CORELDRAW X5 SOFTWARE
Don't know the technical reason but either the hardware or software can take a rgb file and print a bit more vibrant colors even with cmyk inks. The bottom lines are anything but nice pinks.īecause little gnomes live inside the printer and sprinkle magic dust on your prints if you send them as RGB. now try max impact with embedded icc option and print both files then max impact again and just chose preserve primary colors.

Then I converted the pic to cmyk and everything was more vivid.ĥ) also when I had to print something gray I saved the file in cmyk and chose max impact and preserve primary colors and the grey actually came out good and not greenish gray.īasically what I recommend is that if you need to print something and test it how it would look like print it in 10th scale and print something in rgb then cmyk then chose the preset to max impact and print both files again.

I had a file where i imported from CMYK AI to RGB PS document and the colors where dull and ugly. But isn't that only on our screen and it will print differently?Ĥ)If you get a cmyk AI file from a 3rd party designer and you import the layers in to photoshop so you can save them to tiff then make sure you create a new document in PS with CMYK settings. This will change the cmyk settings from USWebCoatedSwop to RolandCMYKġ)If your roland printer has a black, magenta, cyan and yellow ink cartridges why would you print an rgb file?!Ģ)If your roland printer is in CMYK mode why would you print in RGB?!ģ)Its funny how the colors lose vividness as soon as you convert them from RGB to CMYK. BOOOOOOM it was sooooo pink I had to put sunglasses on.īy the way I think the trick to print gorgeous CMYK is to: Right off the bat the whole picture turned from vivid pink to dull pink on my screen. I couldn't figure it out why the pink came out ugly red so I tried something new. When he took some time off (2 weeks) I had a project where the customer asked me to print something pink. My boss yelled my face off when I accidentally designed something in CMYK.

To complete the process of converting outlines in your artwork from CMYK to RGB, repeat steps 1-4, but select Outlines at the Replace colors use as option, in step 4.Its funny that some of you mentioned that colors pop better in RGB.
