Reply To: Adjusting a grayscale print PDF for dot gain

Dot gain is a way to compensate for the bleed of the ink on paper (or other medium) so a dot will increase in size because the ink will soak in the paper and so you can try and control that with dot gain. But it doe nothing to the color itself, black is always black. The gain would only affect the edges of your mass of black, not the inside. So you should only see a difference in the gray portions of an image, not the black or white.