Prepress
Color Management
Color management is an integral part of Accurate's commitment to helping you achieve attractive and accurate printed products. We want to supply you with a variety of useful information to help you understand and capitalize on the color management tools at Accurate Printing.
Historically the graphic arts industry has operated without a true international standard for color management. GRACoL G7 is emerging as the first true standard for developing color management profiles for use by designers, prep houses, printers etc. The Accurate Printing has adopted GRACoL and is G-7 certified. The balance of this page provides our recommendations for graphic file preparation to assure the tightest match among the files you send to us, the proofs we provide and the final printed piece.
Adobe Distiller Settings: We have a Distiller settings file that you can download for more "accurate" PDF file creation. This file can be utilized in a variety of ways. Please contact our Prepress Department if you have any questions.
Click to download Accurate's Distiller Settings File.
Monitor Viewing - Properties Settings:
MAC use RGB 1998
PC use SRGB
Click to download GRACoL G7 ICC Profile
Photoshop/Design Software Print Production Settings:
The Accurate Printing's first preference for the best color match is for you to use the following GRACoL G-7 International Color Consortium Profile. Accurate Printing has fingerprinted our presses to GRACoL specifications using popular grades of paper. Downloading the G-7 ICC profile GRACoL G7 ICC Profile and preparing your output files to these settings will assure the best color match. If you are uncomfortable using the G7 profile, you can contact our prepress department at prepress@accurateprinting.com. If you need additional assistance just ask your Accurate Printing Account Representative to set up a meeting with our color experts.
