print people, i have a problem 55 Responses

Last post: 7 years, 7 months ago | Thread started: Oct 10, 05, 12:47 p.m.

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• vena

  so i really know nothing about print work. i have this ad here, it's a flat, cmyk photoshop file. it's grey scale with one colour (red).

  the problem is, the greys are made up of c, m, y, and k, and the press needs the greys to only be made up of K.

  is there some simple stupid way to get this done relatively quickly?

  i tried binning the cmyk channels and just having it with two spot channels, black and red, but distiller keeps converting the damn greys to have cmy in them even if i tell it not to.

  help is greatly appreciated!

  Oct 10, 05, 12:47 p.m. – Permalink

• kyl3

  duotone?

  

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  Dog-earOct 10, 05, 1:08 p.m. – Permalink

• radar

  just go into the color profile and change the document to grayscale.

  Image > Mode > Grayscale

  

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  Dog-earOct 10, 05, 1:11 p.m. – Permalink

• radar

  nevermind I overlooked the fact you have a red in there.

  

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  Dog-earOct 10, 05, 1:12 p.m. – Permalink

• vena

  duotone, greyscale, monochrome, it doesn't matter, it still goes to cmyk values when i print to pdf, regardless of turning colour management off, telling it not to change colours, any of that...

  

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  Dog-earOct 10, 05, 1:18 p.m. – Permalink

• s_t_e_w

  in photoshop select the part/layer that you want to be black & white

  go to image > ajustments > hue/saturation

  check colorize

  set saturation to zero

  good luck.

  

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  Dog-earOct 10, 05, 1:26 p.m. – Permalink