Hi everyone!

I am having a problem with colours and printing. Perhaps similar problems have been solved in this forum already, but I am quite urgent and I couldn't find a solution at the moment.

The colors of Corel and Photoshop aren't the same. And in fact I like the CMYK photos in Corel more than in Photoshop. But when I convert my CDR file to PDF, the colors there are like the ones in Photoshop. I took my PDFs to a "printing office?" (sorry for my English, can't remember the correct word) and their RIP "test samples" of the file looked just like the PDF and Photoshop files.

So, my question is the following: If I left my files as .CDR-s and took them to the "office", would the colours then be rather like the ones in Corel, or wouldn't that change the case? Or is there any other way to maintain the "Corel colours"?

I have also tried to print samples with RIP-s of the Corel files as well. With Epson R1800 and PowerRIP, I saw the colours more of Photoshop, but with ColorGate and Epson R2400, the colors were quite the same as in Corel. So.. I couldn't find any help of the experimentation.

Thanks in advance..

It sounds to me that you may have differences in the colour management between Corel and Photoshop. It may be worth checking that the colour profiles are set up correctly for the equipment youre printing to.

Thank you for your response.

Sorry for my incompetence, but how could I fix those differences. I have thought that this might be the problem, but I am really quite stupid about color management between different programs.

Oh, and my monitor is correctly calibrated (with Eye-one) (if this is of any help :).

Hi M.S. ,

I had a lengthy thread on this last month and I have it solved with the helps from many fantastic guys here.

http://coreldraw.com/forums/t/7292.aspx

Although I am using X4, but I think it should be the same.