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printing problem-4 colors for text-ill10
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This all really depends on how your final piece is being printed. If it's going as composite (to an inkjet printer or color copier) you can use fizzak's suggestions. If it's going to be separated and printed as full- or spot-color on an offset press, you have to be careful about the colors you use.
Either way, you probably don't want to use the registration black -- it is automatically going to show on all your plates, even spot plates. (That's the point of registration; it's for trim marks and printer's bullets to "register" all of the plates into alignment.) And if we accidentally use it for black and print to our color copier, it uses all 4 colors of toner and comes out actually thick on the paper -- we can scrape it off with a fingernail. No good.
You also have to be careful about using spot color black -- if this is being printed as separations for offset printing, you DO NOT want to use the Pantone Spot Black -- it will create an additional plate. If you don't have any CMYK images or colors that have black as part of the mixture, you could use the spot black, but make sure you use that for EVERYTHING you want in black. Don't start using 2 different blacks or your printer will hate you. Trust me. And if you do use a spot black, Pantone Coated Black and Pantone Uncoated Black will be different plates, too. Make sure you always use the same swatch.
(Sorry this is so long. I run into this all the time and it's a real pain in @$$ to output when it's done improperly.)
As for the text in the pdf being CMYK -- I've also had that problem. I think the only way I've been able to fix it is by using the plug-in PitStop Pro to select all the CMYK black and convert it to 100%. I haven't figured another way around that...
Either way, you probably don't want to use the registration black -- it is automatically going to show on all your plates, even spot plates. (That's the point of registration; it's for trim marks and printer's bullets to "register" all of the plates into alignment.) And if we accidentally use it for black and print to our color copier, it uses all 4 colors of toner and comes out actually thick on the paper -- we can scrape it off with a fingernail. No good.
You also have to be careful about using spot color black -- if this is being printed as separations for offset printing, you DO NOT want to use the Pantone Spot Black -- it will create an additional plate. If you don't have any CMYK images or colors that have black as part of the mixture, you could use the spot black, but make sure you use that for EVERYTHING you want in black. Don't start using 2 different blacks or your printer will hate you. Trust me. And if you do use a spot black, Pantone Coated Black and Pantone Uncoated Black will be different plates, too. Make sure you always use the same swatch.
(Sorry this is so long. I run into this all the time and it's a real pain in @$$ to output when it's done improperly.)
As for the text in the pdf being CMYK -- I've also had that problem. I think the only way I've been able to fix it is by using the plug-in PitStop Pro to select all the CMYK black and convert it to 100%. I haven't figured another way around that...
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