Fred,
I don't understand the point you are making regarding my specific situation. What pdf are you talking about? I never mentioned any such thing. What are you specifically recommending I do to provide what they have said they want? And I don't care if someone I'll never meet or deal with again thinks I am "unsecure".
Brad
Brad, keep in mind that I'm not writing in my native language
And sometimes I may choose uncorrect expressions. I used unsecured instead
Of unsure (about their requirements). Not unsecure as a person or phychological character.
Those kind of mistakes are typical. Not even talking about
The prepositions post verbs in english. Very complicated for us.
As for pdf, the norm here is that printers provide all necessary info on PDFs for their clients.
About everything they'd need to know (included the fact not to colour managed)
Because they are busy and the techs answer the phone on
Cases when it is absolutly required, not for general purposes pre-delivery. In my experience they
Are very knowledgeable and helpfull then.
But I'm talking about capital cities, large facilities. Small printers, no idea.
Well, in fact yes I remember now that the rare time we had worked with smaller
Facilities, it was a chaos and nobody provided anything and
Comunication was required, which was a pita.(mails and mails)
(A bit the same way, like the BBC. They have sheet specs were they explain their requirements for deliverables.
No one calls the BBC to ask nor send 2 versions of the same doc, see what they like best. The tech would go crazy, they have hundreds of files to deal with everyday). It's one file.
Then if there is a real issue they call to fix it. And no shame on anyone. Error can occur at any levels.
And those people are there to help. If it's a printer's error, they will hardly
Admit it.
just like a cineast of this forum told that if there is a theater's mistake,
They will point to the colorist or DCP creator first...it's not us!
Print proof is mandatory for big projects but has a cost.
So, me personaly, I would send one doc, not colour managed.
And if you do cmyk, the default. The less you touch, the better.
Oh yeah, important: if you convert to cmyk, do not compensate
Anything to try to match on a monitor the rgb version if there is a shift. Just
Convert. Because the shift might not be on print. Only the fine tuning can be done from the real
Proof print. Not previously from a display.
Because the paper itself will influence a lot etc etc...
In the past, when I was sending hundreds of rgb photos converted
To cmyk, we didn't had Adobe yet but Quark and Co and on screen it was scaring.
Almost pop art. (Adobe bought Macromedia and solved with Illustrator and Indesign)
Then on print they matched perfectly. When you prepare for cmyk
You have a simulation in PS so you have an idea of the printable
Information and you do eventually slight corrections to the rgb but pre conversion, not
Post. (Corrections are done before the conversion to cmyk on the rgb itself).
So my bottom line is, according to you thread title, there
Is really nothing bizarre to prepare. Just keep things simple
Is the best bet/way.
If you do that a lot, then you might learn tricks, how to prepare
Best, but on the doubt, do nothing special, unless they tell you explicitly,
And keep the mails as proof.