Using "Press Quality" dulled down the colors in my document.
I'm wondering why a PDF I made using the "Press Quality" option has altered the colors in the document, (the document is essentially a collection of color comic strips), basically dulling them down, especially the red shades. All the colors, in general, have a less vibrant look, (especially noticeable when printed). Even the black areas look greyer instead of jet black on the computer screen, (although the black looks fine when printed). I saved the same document as a PDF using the "High Quality" option, and the colors were correct, birght and vibrant However, I would like to use the "Press Quality" option when I go to print, but I do need to get the colors to show accurately. Any thoughts?
Actually, the colors were never in RGB format. I always work in CMYK, being that I'm intending my work for print. Screen colors aren't really an issue here; it's what shows up in the printed version. For example, when I create a comic strip TIFF in Photoshop in CMYK format, it shows up exactly how I intended when printed. In the case of this PDF, the comic strips were indeed CMYK format from the start. In fact, when I created an identcial PDF using the "High Quality" option, the colors came out correctly when I printed that PDF. It was only when I tried using the "Press Quality" option that the colors were altered.
You may be wondering, why don't I just use the "High Quality" setting, then? Well, it appears the "Press Quality" setting prints out in finer detail. I just need to get the colors to look correctly when printed.
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