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T.5E09
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August 24, 2021
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CMYK white is sometimes showing as 0.1% cyan

  • August 24, 2021
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In many documents I open, when I recolor the artwork a lot of the time it will show some or all of the white as 0.1% cyan. It takes a little work around to get it to stay 0%. I have to change that 0.1%C to 100%, and then change the other true-white swatch to 100% C as well so they become one color in the recolor dialog. From there, I just change it back to 0% and it stays that way.

 

Is this a common issue, and is there a better solution than my current work-around?

解決に役立った回答 _henriquedebrito

You might want to take a look at your color settings and the system's calibration


I solved it, thank you.

In Color configuration > Color conversion, Method was set to "Absolute colorimetric". Changing back to "Relative" solved the problem.

 

We wanted to make the use of company colors consistent and stop having color profile inconsistency (amd the annoying warnings). "Absolute" was the suggested method  for that purpose (in the Color configuration's "Description" box itself). I see now that bigger concerns arise with that decision.

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Monika Gause
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Monika GauseCommunity Expert
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August 24, 2021

Please tell us step by step what exactly you are doing using which settings.

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defaultps7ispj0gf12
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April 15, 2025

Nothing to do with settings -- everything to do with the default color swatches.  When you create or select an object and click the icon for the default color swatches (black fill; white stroke) you are met with something that isn't true black and a white stroke that is 'almost' white (with cyan showing as 0.01).  This is even in a RGB document.  The real question should be:  how do you change the DEFAULT color swatch button so that it will set black to 100% black or Rich Black, and set the default white to an actual white?

Monika Gause
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Monika GauseCommunity Expert
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April 15, 2025

You probably created your document the wrong way. And yes that is also an issue with settings.

 

When you need a CMYK document, click on Print in the new document dialog box. Do not change the color mode in the color mode menu.

When you need an RGB document, do NOT select Print, but one of the others.

 

The default black/white is in the Swatches. But they are not global. So you have to select all the existing objects.

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