Colorspace DeviceRGB PDFCreator

Brief Description

PDFCreator can use three different color models: RGB, CMYK and Grayscale.

RGB is a device-dependent color model: different devices detect or reproduce a given RGB value differently, since the color elements (such as phosphors or dyes) and their response to the individual R, G, and B levels vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, or even in the same device over time.

What your issue is

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In the case of DeviceRGB you have selected what is called an "Additive" color space and like a computer monitor it has a broad spectrum of valid colors. On the other hand the color printing process uses a "Subtractive" color space and it has a far more restrictive spectrum of valid colors. This means that your RGB colored items may very likely have colors that simply can not be reproduced by a printing press and therefore the final printed piece may not match very closely with what you see on screen.

How to fix this issue

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By converting your images and other artwork elements into CMYK color space then you will be able preview the colors on your monitor more closely to how they will look when printed. This will prevent the situation where you order printed goods based on RGB and are not happy with the final product that you will receive in CMYK.

More details

For correct printing you need to create your design using CMYK color space (the best way). PDFCreator does not support color convertation, so you can convert RGB to the CMYK using another application (Photoshop, InDesidn, CorelDraw, so on).

References:

Colors

Convert CMYK to RGB

[http://50.19.225.1/wiki/index.php/Colorspace_DeviceRGB_Photoshop Converting RGB to the CMYK. Photosop]

Converting RGB to the CMYK.CorelDraw