Black is never black enough - or is it? 2

[rpwin]

Hi

What is most black:

C100 M100 Y100 K100

or

C0 M0 Y0 K100



Ron Winslow

http://www.rpwdesign.dk

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

 

[viol8ion]

The second one is preferred by many printers, they claim that by adding to the other colors it can cause problems on their end.

If you are not getting a pure black onoutput, turn off color management and see if that helps.

Sometimes adding 20% Magenta will also make the blacks appear darker, but not yellow or cyan.

When in doubt, deny all terms and defnitions.

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[AdobeTim]

There's an article on how to create a rich black here:

http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/14977.html

 

[viol8ion]

Great tutorial, Tim. Thanks!

When in doubt, deny all terms and defnitions.

http://www.wuli.com

 

[rpwin]

Very good article Tim, but help me out here please.

<<quote>>
"The solution is to choose a Custom CMYK conversion in Photoshop"

Where does one choose this?

thx

Ron Winslow

http://www.rpwdesign.dk

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

 

[AdobeTim]

Ron,
In Photoshop, go to Color Settings. Choose "Custom CMYK" from the CMYK working spaces menu. Then, choose GCR and choose "Maximum" from the "Black Generation" menu. This gives you the conversion that will convert RGB to CMYK with blacks appearing only on the Black plate. This should help you when converting images with text or other fine lines to CMYK.

 

[nzingaimani]

Hi. I'm trying to solve a sticky problem. I need to convert the blacks in a TIF file from the standard PSD CMYK setup (64C 52M 51Y 100K) to 30C 22M 22Y 100K for printing. Does anyone know how I go about this. I've checked tutorials but none seem to cover it. ANY assistance is apreciated.