Thanks for the response Rob,
He is using film, color trans. But, after scanning, he does a fair amount of retouching, and styling...work, in PS. I guess it comes to this. comparing some of the earlier promos with the ones using a good print...you cannot tell the difference in terms of overall quality. They look great.
Im just wondering if the same could be done with larger repro (his cards are sort of jumbo postcard size) like in the 8.5x11 region.
I have, in the past, provided color prints for work headed for the press and got great results. This sseems to be the same sort of thing, and, much of my work is black and white and I always provid bw prints..why not this? Im wondering if one of the big boys would jump and slam this concept, flat out....I want to know the dangers. Or, provide some encouragement towards actually making it work better.
Yes, it's fun...except when you can't get an straight answer, regarding profiles, from your client's printer and they say, "just send it over and we'll do the best we can with it" This happens all the time Im sorry to say, and these are reputable printers.
Larger agencies usually have a leg up on this in the form of a person who knows their shight, mid level to small graphic design firms, usually don't.