Smuggins wrote...
Brittany wrote...
... It's just a back and forth process. Some books are great and we have little trouble with, and some other books just like to be troublemakers and you gotta fuss with it for a while before it gets to be just right.
I certainly appreciate the deluxe feel of Fakku releases, and this is one part of that. Thanks for the extra effort!
Just curious, it sounds like it is more complex then just sending a pdf for them to print? Or are you actually modifying the colors in the document?
With Wani specifically (and I'm sure all the other publishers too) after the artist gives them their artwork, they take the files and prepress them to increase the color quality to make sure it comes through well in print. We 99% get those files which makes it easier (School Love Net being the exception), however with different printing machines, different ink densities, sometimes we get a surprise that the outcome isn't what we thought it'd be. Print houses often offer services like prepressing (which Wani also sends out of house) so if files are not coming out correctly, we'll provide our open files for them to manually go in an adjust. Regardless it would either require us to adjust the file or the printer, and sometimes we want a different type of ink as well. The printer is more experienced in knowing how to most easily solve the color issue, so they often handle the adjustments for us.
With Whispers After Class, the first colored chapter was giving us the hardest time, since for some reason we weren't getting that really warm yellow sunlit effect with the colors. The other issue throughout the colors were that the shadows on skin were too brown and the skin too pale. So we want it to be softer and have more of a pink hue