going back to whence we came..I am sure it was frustrating for the clients and the printers to get my velvia+astia chromes...they would never be able to match it..it was out of the cmyk gammat- maybe it would have been safer to shoot E100...but they kept comming back for more.
The good printers didn't mind the bar set high, and did wonders with it.. why in the world would
anyone hand off a srgb file unless the end use was only for the web! I didn't know I was living so dangerously..
btw, my estimates clearly states my workflow in adobe98 and cmyk proofing..nobody has had a problem with it yet..3+ years running.
If you work toward the lowest common denoninator, the printers with the least knowledge about colour management, the safest route, then the work will look safe.