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betty_ward•13m ago

Pro tip: I picked CMYK over RGB for my wedding invite file and the print shop saved me

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the_piper•3h ago

Thought my printer was broken for 3 weeks, it was one checkbox in export

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lily_sullivan82•4h ago

My cheap monitor and my good one showed two totally different greens, and the client picked the bad one

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betty_fisher5•17h ago

Dropped $45 on a monitor calibrator and my prints look exactly the same

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cameron_craig•5d ago

My neighbor's print shop runs everything in CMYK and wonders why his shop signage looks gray

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joseph_fisher95•5d ago

Shoutout to the guy at the Phoenix copy center who said my blues looked like a swimming pool

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reeseanderson•5d ago

Shoutout to the old print shop guy in Dayton who showed me the 300% ink limit in 2004

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sandra146•6d ago

Just switched my tile catalog from RGB proofs to CMYK match prints and the showroom stops looking like a different store

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webb.xena•7d ago

Pro tip: a soft proof on my $30 thrift store monitor beat my fancy 4K for spotting bad yellows

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tyler_baker•7d ago

Hot take: soft proofing on a $200 monitor tricked me into shipping muddy greens

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gavinwood•8d ago

TIL the color picker on my monitor has been lying to me for about 3 years, and a $90 calibrator from a guy in Cincinnati is why I know

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bailey.sandra•9d ago

Can we talk about how I used to design everything straight in CMYK?

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the_ben•10d ago

Showerthought: my grandpa's shop printed oranges that looked like oranges, mine look like traffic cones

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anthonymiller•12d ago

Showerthought: the prepress guy in Cleveland warned me about navy blue, and 300 business cards proved him correct

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fiona_lewis37•12d ago

Swapped to Matte paper on a whim for my cousin's wedding album and the greens finally stopped looking like plastic

CMYK vs RGB Wars

c/cmyk-vs-rgb-wars

A place to argue about color mode mistakes, swap tips for fixing dull prints, and share horror stories of when screen colors lied to you.

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