Imag E D ELIVE R Y youareunabletodelivergoodCMYKfiles.Anaddi- tional benefit of the GRACoL/SWOP methodology and the accompanying CMYK profiles is that they maximize the CMYK gamut, getting the most color out of the press and making conversion from RGB easier,sincefewercolorsgetclipped.Althoughthenew profiles are all formulated for coated stock and have correspondinglyhightotalinklimits,mostprinterscan easilybringthosevaluesdownforuncoatedstockvia Photoshop, a device link profile, or by means of the RIP. CmYK gUIDEPRINTS CMYKguideprintscanbeaveryusefultool,especially whentheprinterisunknown.Theseareeasilyproduced ondesktopprinters.Themaincriteriaarethatyouhave Sharpening for Output All image files, regardless of reproduction method, requireoutputsharpening.Thistargetedoutputsharp- eningoccurswhentheimageisatthefinalsizeforthe specificdisplayorprintingdeviceandsubstrate.Some- timestheonlypieceofmissinginformationpreventing deliveryofacompletelyfinishedimagefileistheexact reproduction size. Although it is possible to sharpen deliveryfiles"generically,"anyresizingdoneafterthis will resample the pixels and result in some loss of sharpness.Asmentionedpreviously,aworkaroundis to deliver sets of files at different sizes, but this does add to the workload. However, use of Photoshop actionscanautomateandspeedupthisprocess. There are two fundamental ways to sharpen digital images: