prepress cindy
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For a quick summary of my nightmare, I am solely responsible for prepping 150 magazines a month for print, about half are B&W. The ad design and magazine layout are done by college kids with limited knowledge to put it nicely. Also there are a lot of ads that come supplied, so god knows who are setting up those. When I first started a few months ago I was having nonstop issues with transparencies and white overprints. Posting on this site helped me change the InDesign settings under output to the following:
Color conversion: Covert to destination (preserve #'s)
Destination: Document CMYK (SWOP)
Profile Inclusion: Don't include profiles
This has worked beautifully! No more transparency issues and I can now use Pitstop to correct all white overprints. But the issue that has finally been brought to my attention is that all the grayscale images are being converted to device n and are printing in CMYK. I did some reading this weekend and come to the conclusion it has something to do with my InDesign settings, but what and which one I don't know. What bothers me the most is when you look at the PDF in acrobat all images are on the black separation only, so how would I have even known? I have to right click on each image and go to the color tab and look at the color space. Pleas help!
Color conversion: Covert to destination (preserve #'s)
Destination: Document CMYK (SWOP)
Profile Inclusion: Don't include profiles
This has worked beautifully! No more transparency issues and I can now use Pitstop to correct all white overprints. But the issue that has finally been brought to my attention is that all the grayscale images are being converted to device n and are printing in CMYK. I did some reading this weekend and come to the conclusion it has something to do with my InDesign settings, but what and which one I don't know. What bothers me the most is when you look at the PDF in acrobat all images are on the black separation only, so how would I have even known? I have to right click on each image and go to the color tab and look at the color space. Pleas help!