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What do you guys know about color managment.

I usually do web design, but I made a few (print) promo materials for myself once. I knew nothing about managment then and just printed it to PDF and took it to kinkos. It came out WAY darker than I expected. Still looked good, but not what I expected. I know a little more now, and currently own a more accuare monitor than before (L220x), but I'm really liking this print thing and want to get deeper into it.

I have an ICM profile for my monitor, with photoshop set up to use that. Previously I just used the default sRGB profile under Photoshop's North America General Purpose 2.

And if anyone knows how I could go about getting a Kinko's color profile, that'd be nice. I may just end up calling the store myself.
>> Anonymous
I wouldn't get your hopes up. I've had Kinko's toss the color management from my PSDs more than once. Maybe your Kinko's is better, but mine is run by idiots. I don't trust them with anything I care about.
>> Lynx !!KY+lVSl0s2m
If you're using your products to make a living, use a real print shop that can furnish you with thier own color profiles.
Just look in the phone book and call up and ask, if they don't know what an ICC profile is, hang up on them.
>> Anonymous
>>212258
You won't get good results unless you go to a legit print shop. Even fucking CVS or Ritz is better thank Kinko's shit.
>> Anonymous
Sadly, I work at Kinko's. There is no color profile; nobody knows how to color manage the printers; if you care about color matching, don't print at a Kinko's. We're more useful for training manuals and throwaway shit like that; for commercial printing you want a professional print shop.
>> Anonymous
www.radiantvista.com

go to video tutorials, there is a 4 part tutorial where this guy talks about color management, VERY HELPFULL. take a look at it