Photoshop text color
svdbygrce (39 pencils) | Fri, 2006-12-15 19:46I recently had a printer tell me that my text was made up of non-black CMYK values when they went to press with my file. I checked my Photoshop text color settings, and sure enough, dragging the mouse to the southwest corner of the color picker yeilds the following values.
C:95%
M:95%
Y:95%
K:85%
Would it be better to go through and values of black text to the following?
C:0%
M:0%
Y:0%
K:100%
What would pure white text then be?
If not these settings, what would be the best-practice for producing black text in offset printing?
Thanks in advance.
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Best practice is to run seps before you submit anything. My biggest complaint about other designers is that they don't do this. Especially when they're running spot colors and they have about 3 different spotted out blacks... oy... ;)
On the pure white text, the amounts would be 0% of all.
Best practice also is to not run text through photoshop! That's what your layout program is for. Then you can take advantage of font smoothing and postscript, which you lose when you use text in photoshop since it becomes rasterized when you rip your file.
0,0,0,0 is 'white' or 'no black'.
If you have more colors than 100%K in your black then the printer has to line up ALL FOUR of your separations perfectly in order to make your text not look like it's blurry and multicolored. They don't a like a dat much. ;)
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