What does everyone recommened for typical sheetfed offset printing?
Stick with the default: U.S. Sheetfed Coated v.2
or
do a custom number - playing with the ink limits and UCA amount.
Thanks
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Doesn't matter if your monitor isn't calibrated to those settings.
Pokie's right. Sample whatever you build and check it against your swatch books. I don't trust Adobe gamma adjustments and stuff. Pantone has their ink selections on CDs. Good investment. You can check some key PMS colors or CMYK builds from the CD against the printed books to get really accurate calibration.
Other than that, I would recommend you ask your commercial printer. You obviously wouldn't use settings for coated if you were printing on uncoated paper, not that you'd typically do that with a 4C palette. But there are probably other adjustments your printer would suggest. Lots of them prefer you keep your hands off certain settings and let their production people do it.
Mara
When you export your file for print any photoshop settings are converted to CMYK unless you specify Pantone colors as well. I recommend not messing with the settings in Photoshop. Save your files as flattened CMYK tifs for best results.
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Hello:
I would recommend not doing custom colors. I am a commercial printer and when someone does not convert from a PMS color we have no idea what it is suppose to look like. Your color monitor is not going to match our press because I know of very few of our customers that have calibrated monitors and even then you are comparing apples to oranges.
Your printer should have a Pantone book that will show you what you can reasonably expect when converting a PMS to CMYK screen mix. Not all colors convert very well to CMYK but at least if you do a PMS color and convert someone can show you within reason a close proximity to what you will end up with.
Regards
Buzz
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A friend of mine told me about this monitor color calibrator. May want to check it out: http://www.calibration-direct.com/index.html