Hi Tim,

First of all I shall apologise for slighting the programme. I don't blame the tools at all. I have been scouring the web to try and find an answer to this for several days. Each time I think I have found something, I try it and the net result is the same. My plea here is my last resort and my reading shows that the members are very good at providing support to others.

If I start at the beginning it may help. I have created an A5, 16 page document in InDesign. The front and back covers are in colour. The rest of the document is purely black text.

I have exported the file to pdf using the preset press quality / high quality print. I have then gone to print this, setting the copiers print driver to automatic. This means it should, in theory, recognise pages that have colour – and therefore print colour – and recognise those pages with just black – and therefore print K only, not a mix of CMYK. I have been assured by the supplier that the copier is able to do this. However, the whole document prints as if it were colour.

I then tried to print a single page of text from the pdf, this also comes out as colour if the driver is set to automatic.

I have tried to adjust the setting in appearance of black, but this doesn't seem to have helped.

I would be very grateful if someone could quickly walk me through the process of exporting a pdf so that the text is black, and therefore will print as black from the copier.

From what I have read, people have been suggesting opening the pdf in Acrobat, removing the images, changing the text to grayscale, replacing the images and then printing it. But it seems very convoluted.

I hope that you may be able to help.

Cheers,

Nick