Reply To: Typeset in Colour or Black and White

To change your colors afterwards in Indesign, you would need to either search and replace and change the colors, or delete the color swatches and replace with black.

I don’t understand why you would want to do it in color, even though it’s going to print in black & white only. Sure–it might look better when viewing on screen, or if printing color files from the InDesign file, but all that prettiness doesn’t matter in the long run–it’s going to be printed in black & white at the final stage.

I’m in book publishing, and if it’s a black and white job, we do it in black and white at all stages. If it’s color, we do it in color at all stages.

I think, for you, it would just be easier to do the job in black and white and forget about the color.