Black is separating in to CMYK when printing.

[Publisher in a Mac world]

At our company we are mac based. So when receive Publisher files form our
customers, we have to make a PDF in order to print. When making PDFs in
Publisher, black is separating in to CMYK when printing. How can I fix this?

 

[dominic.martin]

One thing I can suggest is when you open the document in Publisher, go
to the Commercial Printing Tools option under the Tools menu. Select
Colour Printing. First of all, check that the colours should be defined
as Full Process CMYK. Then click on the Colours tab. You may find that
the black colour is made up of a mixture of CMY. Click on the colour
and publisher will give you the option to change it. Now you can
specify 100K and 0 for CMY. Once you accept the change, publisher will
replicate it across all the items in the document using that colour. If
you find that you have two colours that are supposed to be identical
but are made up using different combinations of CMYK, you can get
publisher to merge them together. Simply change the CMYK values of one
of the colours to match the other and publisher will perform the merge.
Again, any item using the old colour will be updated to reflect the new
values.

Hope that helps.

Dominic

 

[Publisher in a Mac world]

Thanks for the suggestion.

 

[Publisher in a Mac world]

A co-worker of mine has try this before. She says when distilling the
post-script the colors are defaulting to RGB. We have checked the Adobe
Distillers options and everything seems to be in order there.

 

[dominic.martin]

A co-worker of mine has try this before. She says when distilling the

post-script the colors are defaulting to RGB. We have checked the Adobe
Distillers options and everything seems to be in order there.

When you go to the Print dialogue box in Publisher and select your
postscript printer. Have you clicked on the advanced options button
(not the printer properties)? Here you can select whether to print RGB
or CMYK Composite or Seperations. The default is RGB, so you need to
select CMYK. There is a tick box to make that the default choice.

You can confirm that this is the problem by asking Publisher to give
you a print preview. In the print preview you can ask it to show you
the seperations. This should confirm that publisher is correctly
configured to produce black on the K channel only.

Not that it should make any difference whatsoever but Publisher does
come with its own generic postscript driver produced by Microsoft in
conjunction with Adobe. If all else fails, try producing the
posctscript file from that and then distill it. The printer driver can
be found in the following directory:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\MSCOL11.inf

Dominic

 

[Terje Martinsen]

This is only true in Pub2003 though. 2002 and older does not have this
facility.

Terje

 

[Terje Martinsen]

Forgot to say:
I have seen the described misfunction in Pub 2002 and 2000. Black text is
truly separated into something "almost" black.
Only solution, update to 2003 and compose document with CMYK right from the
start.

Terje

 

[Mike Bailey]

The best way to fix this if you do not have Publisher 2003 is to use PitStop
in Acrobat to convert RGB Black to 100% K. I think one of the options that
come with PitStop also allows you to convert all RGB colours to CMYK, but
I've got so many of my own PitStop actions now I can't remember which came
with PitStop. If you don't have the PitStop plug-in I would highly recommend
getting it, it solves a lot of PDF ills.