Which CMYK Profile Should I Use? Which CMYK Profile Should I Use? To get the best predictable results when sending your designs/photos for commercial offset printing you need to select a suitable CMYK profile that best matches the destination printing conditions before converting images to cmyk. Graphic design software such as Adobe's Creative Suite (Photoshop, Indesign and Illustrator) come with ICC profile presets for sheetfed and web offset presses and various coated and uncoated paper types. There are profiles for North America, Europe and Japan who each have different printing standards. In an ideal world, there would be an international standard that all printers globally would follow for each printing method, with standard inks, paper and press setups, and there would be just one set of ICC profiles for each of these conditions.
Jun 09, 2009. Bvdm and FOGRA jointly recommend the use of “ISO Coated v2 (ECI)” and “ISO Coated v2 300% (ECI)”. The latter is. What is FOGRA39? FOGRA39 is a. According to the standard printing definition in ISO 12647-2:2004 / Amd 1. Including ISOcoated_v2_300_eci.icc from ECI. All current Proof Standards (Stand 2014) of ECI, Fogra, SWOP, GRACoL, Ifra, JMPA etc. With profiles and verification data.
This would make life easier for designers, who often don't know who is going to be printing their designs. It would be a safe bet that something printed in the UK would be a close match to the same design printed in the US, for example. Lets hope that this will all happen in the future! If you know who will be doing the printing, then for best results, ask which profile you should use, they may even supply you with a custom profile specifically for their setup. But if you don't know who will be doing the printing, which is often the case these days, then use the profiles listed below. Printing in the UK and Europe The international standard ISO 12647/2-2004 is being used by more and more printers in the UK and Europe these days. The German printing research organisation (FOGRA) developed this standard by testing a large number of presses using a range of paper types and produced a set of datasets.