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Ed: you say: <<Because what the viewer sees when looking at prints is color form reflected <<light, some of which has been absorbed by the print whereas the monitor is <<light itself shot right into our eyes. Therefore there can be no exact <<coraspondance. But wait a minute a slide projected on a wall or even scanned then brought into photoshop and sent to print will show the exact colors.. <<Some colors that you see on the monitor cannot be printed so it <<is very important to send the printer a CMYK file( Photoshop .PSD ). Ok so you bring it in as a TIF or JPEG.. any idea by the way if a file that is a JPEG at say 2000 x 3000 will give as good an image to send to the printer as a 2000 by 3000 TIF ? I ask since it can be easier to transfer a 500 K JPEG than a 7 meg TIF.. <<convert the RGB file ( TIF, TGA or whatever ) to CMYK in photoshop you will <<probably need to adjust the saturation of the colors or of a particular color <<channel to get close to what the image looks like on the monitor. <<If the printer does this conversion, you leave the final output to chance. So what your saying is that there is no automatic way to make sure that the file I render in 3DS and see with the colors that are correct will turn out exactly the same on a print ? I must be missing something here cause I cannot believe that handing over a diskette with a TIF on it and saying to the bureau that the file needs to be 8 x 10 or 11 x 14 and that ther might need to be more done to it.. I mean if my object MUST be a certain color and it's OK on the monitor then it has to be the same on a print, no one can stand around and do color adjusting..