Recent changes to a color managed Workflow?

Many of our clients are now supplied us with "ready to print" PDF files instead of native files and in the past few months I had many of them ask me to leave images RGB placed in InDesign by making a pdf for printing rather than convert them in Photoshop.  In the past, I have always advised them not to do this and gave them an action to the batch to convert their images to our printing profile. This concept has changed recently? Is there a reason to keep the RGB images, other than the hassle of the conversion of all?  I was always under the impression that the conversion to the profile in Photoshop is the best way to avoid problems down the line color.

The reason to not convert to CMYK in Photoshop, it is that it does not limit your output on a single device file, so you can reuse for digital printing, leaves a press in the United States or in China, or even press one to display and get the optimal color of a single file, as long that you specify the correct output profile when exporting to the exit conditions.

The other side of this workflow is that you get the same conversion you would get by opeing the file in Photoshop and make a convert to profile. It's also the downside - there is no additional opportuinty to settle anything for projects that are REALLY essential colours, like Museum catalogs, I therefore always do my conversions in Photoshop and replace the RGBs in the .indd file. If I think that I'll ever need to reuse, however, I would like to put a RGB version, too.

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