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• • November 3, 2014 at 5:52 am #71388
    Tom Venetia

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    I am publishing a book at Lulu. Received the first proofing. Seemingly, all the interior, which is supposed to be b&w, was printed in CMYK. The result is that mainly all illustrations (but the text also) are washed and grayish.
    Is it possible to set ID’s printing presets to generate a PDF which at Lulu’s digital printers will print in pure black?
    Note: all illustrations were saved in Photoshop as “grayscale” and 300 dpi. The text produced in ID was set “black.”
    TIA
    Tom

  • November 3, 2014 at 7:10 am #71389
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    It may be how you created the PDF. For example, if you exported using the “smallest file size” pdf preset, then all your colors were converted to RGB.

    I did a course at lynda.com on how to export good print-quality PDFs here: https://www.lynda.com/InDesign-tutorials/InDesign-Insider-Training-Print-PDFs/155936-2.html (I did not address lulu specifically, though)

  • November 3, 2014 at 1:21 pm #71401
    Tom Venetia

    Member

    David, thank you for your quick reply and information. It just happens that I used a preset file downloaded from Lulu. Besides, all pages are b&w so why would ID convert the images to RGB?
    In any case, meanwhile I also searched Lulu’s forum and found a full spec for B&W files exporting to PDF. Here is the link:
    https://x2t.com/Lulu_b-w_presets.
    I reconverted my file (pain_in_the_b_t with a 408 pages ID file) and will upload it to Lulu. Hopefully this will work.
    Regards
    Tom

  • November 3, 2014 at 1:21 pm #71402
    Tom Venetia

    Member

    BTW, your tutorial at Linda is super
    Thanks

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