CMYK Black Illy Q
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- JamesBoynton
Hey, first of all i apologise for the noob type question, i'm back on print design after a lot of web and i've forgotten... a lot!
Anyway, i have a single colour card to print, ihave layed it out in indesign and i have added an illy logo. It is single colour (black)... but when i place the illy file in indesign it comes through as 4 colour process (i see this when i package it)... so i go to illy and see that the black is cmyk, i try changing it to grayscale and everything but indesign keeps seeing it as process (0 0 0 100)... what am i doing wrong, do i create another spot black and try that?
Any help would be awesome.
- lambsy0
0 0 0 100 = 1 color
should be fine.
- JamesBoynton0
Also, i should mention that i just used illy's standard black thats is already there when you load up.
- JamesBoynton0
lambsy, yeah thats what i thought, i just wondered why indesign saw it as being 4 colour.
- SkyPoo0
Its okay as CMYK. Greyscale isn't really a print value, its a photographic value. I would imagine that indesign auto-converts it to CMYK and it should make it c0 m0 y0 k100. If not, you just need to adjust it to that.
To be absolutely sure I would make it a CMYK with those values in Illy before importing it. For the record if you send a greyscale to print it will geenrally come out as a very dark tint of black, not balc itself, becuase a 100% black in greyscale only equates to about 90-95% black in print.
- Sorry, was busyu typing this as these much less wordy to-the-point replies dropped in.SkyPoo
- JamesBoynton0
Cool, cheers, it had me worried for a min. Cheers!
James
- airey0
add PMS black or open the colour swatch (by double clicking the colour in the palette) and choose 'spot color', making sure the color breakdown is 0,0,0,100. give it a name (either PMS black, spot black, the colour formally known as whatever) and save as an EPS. it has to be an EPS to safely embed the spot colour for export. then when you import it to indesign it'll bring the colour as a usable swatch. hey presto you're fucking laughing.
- JamesBoynton0
The black in the color palette wouldnt let me change it to spot... hmmm, will try adding a PMS black instead. Cheers Airey.
- studderine0
do 95% black.