InDesign 2 (WIN) color palette problem

[qwerqwerqwer]

HELP!
I am producing a black on newsprint newspaper with InDesign. All _was_ going along well until I managed to gum up the program settings somehow.

Normally, when things worked correctly, there was NO checkmark for any color mode (LAB, RGB, or CMYK). There were no color sliders but beautiful black. All was well. There was no color management set. The plates were all crisp and clean. 256 grayscale images, black for black. NO separations.

And then, every document I create anew has a check on the CMYK mode with color everywhere! I can't get rid of the color! The last issue sent to the printer was totally botched. Somehow the black plate was a composite of some sort of 4 color process which I had no idea about. It was not a good day.

My printer couldn't find the problem, and doesn't have the expertise with InDesign to advise me. Can anyone instruct me as to how I can revert back to my previous bliss?

Black is Black. ONLY. NO COLOR. How?

I have old copies that have these settings that only show black but anything new always starts with the dreaded color. Please help, I'm desperate.

 

[MarcusStringer]

When you open InDesign,
before you create a new document ie. have document open. go to your colour settings and turn your colour management off. also go to your swatches palete.
click on the little arrow thingy (I don't know what it's called) in the top right corner of the swatches pallete.
Select all unused and delete them, it will then give you an option of which colour your want to convert them to.
select [Black]
Quit out of InDesign
Re open it
If you do stuff like that without a document open then it becomes the defult.

Let me know who you went....


Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[MarcusStringer]

<I>before you create a new document ie. have document open.</I>

I meant to say before you create a new document ie. have <b>no</b> document open.

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[qwerqwerqwer]

Hmmmm, curiouser and curiouser.

I've got things set right now, had to create a new file on another machine and copy that file to this one.

The settings on the other machine that created the proper black only text and frame mode colors has the default process color swatches...go figure.

Now, how do I put back the process color swatches I just deleted?