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Coryaned
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September 24, 2019
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My Printer is Requesting a Color Profile with NO Black in it!?

  • September 24, 2019
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Hello Everybody,

 

I have a bit of a frustrating problem with my printer (person). He wants me to leave the images I am creating to get printed in US Web Coated SWOP v2 or he won't print them, or he converts them to that profile before printing. I am creating the files in Illustartor in RGB and converting them to US Web Coated SWOP v2 for him to be printed, but that color profile doesn't print blacks with black ink. My images keep returning from this printer with muddy browns that are a composite of CYM. When I save the PDF to be sent to the printer and check the TAC and color density levels in Adobe Acrobat Pro, the blacks are a percentage of black. Can anybody tell me how to fix this or at least why it is happening? I created a custom profile with MAX BLACK GENERATION to get the best blacks, but he said that the profile was giving me composite blacks and my image files came back way off from how they looked on the proof. I would appreciate any guidance at all. Thank you in advance.

 

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    D Fosse
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    September 24, 2019

    If you want K-only blacks, you need to create them as such in the final destination CMYK (Web Coated SWOP), and don't convert again.

     

    Converting from a different profile, even another CMYK profile, will turn it into 4 color blacks.

    Coryaned
    CoryanedAuthor
    Participant
    September 24, 2019

    Or, is there a way to completely remove all color profiles from an image, a PDF?