It is always with some excitement and trepidation that I receive commercially printed images back from the printers.

Regrettably, in my experience, the same isn’t true of every commercial printer. To properly proof images before sending to a commercial printer, you really need a copy of the profile from the commercial printer that they are going to use to print your work. This often isn’t an easy ask! In fact, quite often it just gets lost in translation.

My best advice is that if they don’t talk the right colour management language and they won’t let you have a copy of the necessary colour profile, then find another printer.

Anyway, despite believing that all would be well, there is always a moment of suspense opening a package with either proofs or the first production images inside.

This time round all went to plan – sigh of relief!

These images are a selection of what will be available as greetings cards from my website in the next week or so.