Reply To: Sudden rich black problem

Hey David,

Thanks for your response. Oddly, my printer actually recommends sending RGB documents, since the printer used for this job is an Indigo. I don’t really ask why, but a CMYK document I had printed by them in the past looked worse than all mixed or RGB only documents I sent later.

After some thorough examination of older documents I noticed that you were indeed correct about rich black in a PDF export. How silly of me to not notice before, however the current doc is the first with large black shapes. I’ll just go ahead and create a rich black or regular RGB black swatch (will work either way with printer) and replace em all….shouldnt be too difficult.

I am curious though about why one wouldnt want rich black for fine lines and text on a printing press. I mean, printing 100%K will always look washed out, right?