Hamilton--An Issue of Compatibility

Recently, this issue came into focus on one of the industry bulletin boards. Although the particular beef was over color management, this type of problem has been around since "RageMaker" came onto the market in the mid-'80s. In this particular instance, the printer had spent hours optimizing images for particular output conditions—in this case CMYK—and then sent them to the client for cropping and other minor adjustments. When the files came back, they were in a different color space (RGB) and all the printer's efforts were for naught.