Color management is a key part of our commitment to helping you achieve attractive and accurate printed products. This section includes a variety of useful information to help you understand and capitalize on the color management tools at John Roberts.

Historically the graphic arts industry has operated without a true international standard for color management. GRACoL G7 is emerging as the first true standard for developing color management profiles for use by designers, prep houses, printers etc.  The John Roberts Company has adopted GRACoL and is G-7 certified.  The balance of this page provides our recommendations for graphic file preparation to assure the tightest match among the files you send to us, the proofs we provide and the final printed piece.

Adobe Distiller Settings: Use PDFX1a settings or the Press Quality settings in Adobe Distiller to help you create print-ready, color-correct PDF files.

Monitor Viewing - Properties Settings:
MAC use RGB 1998
PC use SRGB
Click to download GRACoL G7 ICC Profile

Photoshop/Design Software Print Production Settings:
The John Roberts Company’s first preference for the best color match is for you to use the following GRACoL G-7 International Color Consortium Profile.  John Roberts has fingerprinted our presses to GRACoL specifications using popular grades of paper in both conventional and stochastic screening techniques. Downloading the G-7 ICC profile GRACoL G7 ICC Profile and preparing your output files to these settings will assure the best color match.  If you are uncomfortable using the G7 profile, we suggest you follow the grid below for U.S. Sheetfed and SWOP standards.  If you need additional assistance just ask your John Roberts account representative to set up a meeting with our color experts.

Color Management Spec Sheet - This checklist helps ensure your electronic files are prepared for smooth processing in our PrePress department. A completed checklist should accompany your submitted files.