What color management settings should I use to accurately print rich black?

[kirbyl966632]

When printed via Adobe Acrobat (or printed directly from Adobe InDesign), a .pdf with #000000 (C: 30, M:30, Y:30, K:100) text is coming out with a blueish hue, while printed via Chrome gives an accurate rich black.

On a PC with Windows 7.

Thanks!

Kirby

[Test Screen Name]

What printer? What driver?

What do you mean by "#000000 (C: 30, M:30, Y:30, K:100) " - #0000000 is RGB black, and its conversion to CMYK will depend on the profiles used or assumed for RGB and CMYK. So what actual colour and profile is used?

[Lukas Engqvist]

The exact value for a neutral Rich Black is device and substrate dependent. Also I would strongly discourage rich black for text (Unless it is large bold heading type, but this also is dependent on substrate and process)

[Dov Isaacs · Accepted solution]

Forget about directly printing from InDesign in terms of high quality printed output.

From Acrobat or Reader, R=G=B=0 (RGB “black”) does by default print as CMYK=(0,0,0,1) if the proper option is set in the Advanced (Color Management) print options. This option is treat grays as K-only grays, which outputs R=G=B to CMYK=(0,0,0,1-(R=G=B)). This only works properly for PostScript printers.

Printing R=G=B to non-PostScript devices depends on the printer and its driver.

          - Dov

[c9637m]

Dov, Thanks.  Just what I was looking for!  Regards, Charles
Upvote from me though I can't click for it.