[scribus] Change in POD printers color standards.

john Culleton John at wexfordpress.com
Sat Oct 26 16:11:42 UTC 2013


On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 11:58:10 -0400
john Culleton <John at wexfordpress.com> wrote:

> The two large POD (digital) printers Lightning Source and
> Createspace now accept PDF/X-3 files for color printing. The
> advantage to using X-3 rather than X/1-a:2001 is that they do
> the conversion for you: correcting for both the press and the
> paper. These printers do don't share their ICC profiles with
> customers. See Aaron Shepard's blog page for more details. 
> http://www.newselfpublishing.com/

Addendum: The recommended color space is Adobe RPG. The blog
post is found here:

http://www.newselfpublishing.com/blog/#MoreTIL

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