Images for print going over 240% ink saturation

[Archer74]

Hello, I hope some can help me with this problem:

I've made images for print in a newspaper and the printer's comment was "ink saturation too high. stay under 240%". I asked him about it and he sent his Photoshop settings but im using PaintShop Pro 8:

Photo shop set-up numbers

_Preferences-_
Monitor- select monitor type with grey background
Gamma- 1.8
white point- 6500 K
Phosphorus- Trinitron
Ambient light- Medium

_Printing ink setup_
ink colors- SWOP coated
dot gain- 33%
gray balance- C-.95, M-1, Y-.9, k-1


_Separation setup
_separation type- GCR_
_black generation- custon-Flat to 33% then smooth increasing slope to 95%
black ink limit- 95%
total ink limit- 220%
UCA amount- 0%
Gray balance- C-40%, M-30%, Y-30% k-0%

_Color picker
_white target- C-2%, M-2%, Y-1%, K-0%
Black target- C-48%, M-39%, y-38%, K-95%


I have no clue how to match those settings in PSP8. so is there anyone here who knows how? I dont think I have to match it 100% and i just want my images not to go over the 240% limit. Thnx and have a nice day

 

[vacunita]

I guess it refers to the CMYK profiles.

Short for Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black, and pronounced as separate letters. CMYK is a color model in which all colors are described as a mixture of these four process colors. CMYK is the standard color model used in offset printing for full-color documents. Because such printing uses inks of these four basic colors, it is often called four-color printing.

Try going into File->Preferences->CMYK Conversion Preferences. Don't know much about them, but i guess you can play around with the values to match those requested by your printer.



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[Archer74]

thank you for the reply. I've tried the CMYK conversion option already and the only settings i can see that match are the black limit and the coverage limit. Ive split and recombined my images to CMYK and from CMYK. but i couldnt tell if the total saturation is within or over 240%. am i looking for a feature that PSP8 does not have?

 

[Archer74]

sorry for double posting but i forgot to mention that that images are inserted in a PDF file and sent to the publisher for printing.