Why does Illustrator change rich black values in cmyk to other value willy nilly Example 1: I have a cmyk file. I create a rectangle and apply a gradient with 3 stops: rich black (60,40,40,100), rich black again, and red. But then when I spot check with shift+eyedropper anywhere in the black region, it shows 74.97, 67.92, 67.05, 90.15 Example 2: sometimes I when create a new shape and set the color to 60,40,40,100, . But when I check the color later, it's been changed to that same other black listed above. And the only way to get the rich black to stick that I can find is to copy an object with the same rich black from another document, paste it into the current doc and then set the color of the new object by eyedropping the pasted one. THEN it takes the rich black and keeps it. But if I manually set it to 60,40,40,, illustrator just changes it. This is causing so many issues with printing as I have to constantly check all rich black objects to make sure they haven't mysteriously reverted to regular black. This only seems to happen with black/rich bl
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