I have an Illustrator document with placed 3 color images (CMY) that is showing black info when I view it using separations preview. The placed photoshop file is a CMYK file and does not have anything in the black channel. Im using Illustrator version 29.2.1.
Kinda making me crazy.
Your color settings with CMYK: preserve embedded profiles will convert the Gracol to the current Swop working space. Going from a 4 color space to 3 color Lab to another 4 color Swop, which will generate 4 colors including black.
The default settings: Preserve Numbers (Ignore Linked Profiles) makes sure that no conversion takes place and that black is not regenerated. It would not matter that much for images in general but it it not a good option for vector files and your example image when you want to keep the numbers.
So either use Preserve Numbers (Ignore Linked Profiles) or use Edit > Assign profile to make the profiles the same. the
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