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it goes right here
Nov 30, 2005
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Should I be converting my photos to CMYK from RGB before I print on my Canon i950?

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Yitz
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Waldo
Nov 30, 2005
it goes right here wrote:
Should I be converting my photos to CMYK from RGB before I print on my Canon i950?

Thanks,

Yitz

No, don’t do that! The printer driver will convert the CMYK into RGB and sends it to the printer, that will convert it to the 6 process colors of the printer (the i950 doesn’t work with CMYK only!). 2 color conversions can degrade your image.

Waldo
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kctan
Nov 30, 2005
Yes, never do that. Some may agree to convert as inkjet uses cmyk inks too for printing but that is entirely different technology. You convert only when the image is meant for press printing.

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it goes right here wrote:
Should I be converting my photos to CMYK from RGB before I print on my Canon i950?

Thanks,

Yitz

No, don’t do that! The printer driver will convert the CMYK into RGB and sends it to the printer, that will convert it to the 6 process colors of the printer (the i950 doesn’t work with CMYK only!). 2 color conversions can degrade your image.

Waldo
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Tacit
Nov 30, 2005
In article <dmjrvk$dfq$>,
"it goes right here" wrote:

Should I be converting my photos to CMYK from RGB before I print on my Canon i950?

No.

Inkjet printers use CMYK, or some variant thereof, but it is not the same CMYK that printing presses use; the inkjet inks are not the same as printing press inks. (The cyan, in particular, tends to be more blue.)

The driver software for inkjet printers expects RGB, which it then converts to the printer’s own peculiar brand of CMYK. If you send CMYK, the image is converted to RGB, then back to the printer’s own CMYK, with inferior results.

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Mike Russell
Nov 30, 2005
"it goes right here" wrote:

Should I be converting my photos to CMYK from RGB before I print on my Canon i950?

Generally no. There are some distinct advantages to color correcting in CMYK, and you may decide to play with those later, for example if you get a copy of Dan Margulis’s Professional Photoshop and want to follow the CMYK examples in the book.

There is no need to convert for the sake of printing on an inkjet, and there is a chance of losing some the deeper blue colors in some images if you do so. .
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