Problem with colors

[Katerina]

Hi,

I designed my business cards in rgb, converted to cmyk, saved in pdf for printing purpose and it all looked good. Printing went out good, nice colors, just as I wanted. Later on I made few changes in design and I saved the file as before. Now the colors look dull, even if I save it as jpg. I made same project in cmyk from start but it didn't help. In photoshop colors are nice, but after saving and opening pdf file, color changes. Please help, I don't know what to do.

 

[NeoNirvana]

1. What is your default color profile setting?

2. Do you always embed the color profile?

I've had this problem before when crossing files with multiple apps.

 

[Katerina]

My color settings: North America General Purpose 2 (I hope that's what you asked for)

What do you mean by "Do you always embed the color profile?" (Sorry, graphic design software is new to me). I didn't make any changes to any default settings.

 

[NeoNirvana]

Here's what I mean, pretty sure yours should be set to this.