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InDesign - Export to PDF colour changes?

  • 24-01-2008 11:45AM
    #1
    Oriel
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭


    Hi Folks,
    A magazine I've done - some of the pages have a black background.
    Now, all appears fine in InDesign, but when I export it to PDF, print quality, the black appears as a dark grey (the black in the photos appears as proper black).
    Will this come out as dark grey in the final print?
    What's going on?

    Cheers,
    Steve.


Comments

  • #2
    Oriel
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Oriel


    Nobody?


  • #3
    Paddy@CIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,895 ✭✭✭Paddy@CIRL


    I had the exact same problem and still do.

    I originally thought that 0C 0M 0Y 100K was showing as a dark grey because it isn't 0R 0G 0B, the colours we see on a monitor. Most times it has printed black, once it hasn't. An overlaying image which was predominantly black with red trail lights going through it appeared with a hard black edge over the black background. Still can't figure it out TBH ...


  • #4
    Oriel
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Oriel


    Hmm, I was thinking that was the problem, but again yeah, I'm not sure how to fix it.
    Thanks.


  • #5
    Gordon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,522 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Can you put container images of pure black where the black background would be? Bit of a pain but it could sort it until you have fixed it properly.


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