{"id":820,"date":"2021-12-19T08:49:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T03:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lakfoil.com\/?p=820"},"modified":"2022-04-30T10:11:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T04:41:05","slug":"one-of-these-blacks-is-not-like-the-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakfoil.com\/?p=820","title":{"rendered":"[2] One of These Blacks is Not Like the Other"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Plain Black<\/b>
When you use black in a program like Illustrator or InDesign without choosing a Pantone color, the CMYK breakdown automatically defaults to C=0 M=0 Y=0 K=100, where black is fully saturated and the other three are completely absent.<\/p>

Rich Black \/ Full Black<\/b>
As stated before, there are several variants of rich black, but what\u2019s important to know when you\u2019re designing is that the Photoshop default for black is different than other programs (where C: 75, M: 68, Y: 67, K: 90). It\u2019s likely that Photoshop will be the place you find this difference most often if you\u2019re not intentionally trying to give a piece of your design a darker, richer tone than you get with plain black. If you are intentionally doing so, make sure to ask your printer which variant of rich black they like to use on press, usually referred to as \u201cwarm black\u201d or \u201ccool black,\u201d where there are higher levels of either magenta or cyan, respectively. It\u2019s generally not recommended that you use a completely saturated level of all four colors (where C: 100, M: 100, Y: 100, K:100), as this can over-saturate the paper on press and will certainly give the press operator trouble.<\/p>

Why It Matters<\/b>
Other than over-saturating your paper on press or creating a document that has visibly different tones of black than you were expecting, the main headache caused by choosing the wrong black happens in terms of setting type.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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As previously mentioned, both Illustrator and InDesign default to plain black, where it\u2019s more often recommended you do your type setting for documents anyway. If, however, something happens where you\u2019ve accidentally set especially large amounts of type in any variant of rich black, you might notice a problem in your final printed piece. If your press operator runs your job and doesn\u2019t perfectly match up each separation of CMYK by precisely lining up the document\u2019s registration marks, or if the paper shifts at all while moving through the rollers on press, you\u2019ll likely see the ghosting of one or all of C, M, or Y falling outside of the characters in your type, making it not nearly as sharp as expected. Your printer might end up doing it well regardless, but it also might take them more time, paper, and energy to print it correctly.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As previously mentioned, both Illustrator and InDesign default to plain black, where it\u2019s more often recommended you do your type setting for documents anyway. If, however, something happens where you\u2019ve accidentally set especially large amounts of type in any variant of rich black, you might notice a problem in your final printed piece. If your press operator runs your job and doesn\u2019t perfectly match up each separation of CMYK by precisely lining up the document\u2019s registration marks, or if the paper shifts at all while moving through the rollers on press, you\u2019ll likely see ghosting of one or all of C, M, or Y falling outside of the characters in your type, making it not nearly as sharp as expected. Your printer might end up doing it well regardless, but it also might take them more time, paper, and energy to print it correctly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-printing-basics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakfoil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakfoil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakfoil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakfoil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakfoil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/lakfoil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":927,"href":"https:\/\/lakfoil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakfoil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakfoil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakfoil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakfoil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}