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Hey, i love AD, but since day 1 i have struggled with print. Im having issues, i could never get 100k black, then i got it buy playing with the pdf settings, now i cant get shadows to export on a pdf. its strange because i configure the settings one way and i CAN export the shadow but NOT achieve 100K, vice versa, when i get it too print 100K, i cannot export drop shadows in the same document. im attaching the affinity file, if anyone can get this exported, with shadows and 100kblack (proper colours/cmyk) i would appreciate it highly, and let me know the export settings and where/what im doing wrong. I work in a marketing agency, the owners have owned print houses, they have 100 years knowledge in print and im not just saying it, they are literally experts ive never heard anyone with even close knowledge in the industry. which makes it even stranger that i cannot get document to print as desired! we have printers in office, outsource work, all the workers are from print houses and repo. to add more to this, ive also uploaded my export settings on how i achieve 100k black, but sing these settings i cannot export shadows. when i get the shadow but no 100k, i just use 'press ready' and alter nothing, but like i say, that doesnt carry the 100kblack. the document is set up 100% correct - (there is no 100k black in use on this document EXCEPT the example square on art-board 'proof' LJmykar.afdesign

Hey thankyou but i understand the basic principles, my problem being when all my profiles are CMYK, all blacks are set to 0 0 0 100, my black still doesn't come out 100K in acrobat. i have not idea why, it isn't something infant of me, t this point im geneuily putting it down too the software. i can take the same broken file that won't show 100k, export to EPS, bring into AI to PDF, and when the same file with not adjustments just taken through AI instead of AD produces 100k black as the values are set.

I just downloaded your file, exported with no changes, print ready export, and when i took it into acrobat it wasn't 100k black. im having the same issues as everyone else and its driving me crazy, if i take the same file EPS it and Pdf via AI, it comes out perfect 100K black, deffo an affinity its problem but whyat i would love to know, apparently you're either bless by the print gods and able to 100k or you are not.

yes i have even done this and still no luck, i will attach a file for you to look at possibly, the file is CMYK, i have been working with CMYK colours, it is set at 100 black, when PDF and checked in print preview (acrobat) it is no longer black and a mix BS.afdesign

Hey, sorry im late but reading through this im having the exact same problem with 100 black, as you can see on my profile, how did you fix it? i have so many print jobs and im having to work back in AI as i just can not get 100|K black in affinity

Split from this thread. any actual solutions yet? i understand the on screen bit, but as the OP quite clearly shows, when these documents set at 100k black are taken into print preview acrobat then there is more CMY than K in the black, it is so frustrating! you can eps the file that will not show 100K even thought set, take that file into AI, it will show 100k instantly and you can pdf it, preview it, and it shows 100k with no adjustments, why is affinity software changing these values on output???

thanks for the response, i actually figured it out, and was an oversight by myself, the above comment is the solution for anyone reading.

PLEASE HELP! im at my wits end with this programme honestly, so, when i set up a document for print (press read) CMYK, profile cmyk working in CMYK colours, when i PDF, no matter what, the black comes out 4 colour instead of 100 black????????? it's driving me insane

Im having the same issue, about to switch back to adobe. 5 hours of work for a leading car company, GONE! would love a resolve, only happened to me since the latest update, 1.9 i believe....

so im sure there used to be a 'gradient' panel. i can not find this to save my life. nothing in studio along those lines at all, pretty much have the whole studio open at all times. please help, really loosing all patience for AD at this point. screenshots attached, isn't in with my other panels and not in tools.

Ever since the new update im struggling to save. im loosing 50% of my work. im doing work, clients coming back days later for edits and im doing work allover again. on the very last straw of moving over to AI. i mean i pay for a subscription, i just prefer AD UI. but recently the problems with the software are pushing me towards professional software. AD might be good for the bedroom illustrator. but when working with high end clients, it doesn't reach the standards required. im falling so far behind due to simple errors in software and lack of basic 'illustration tools'. i really loved AD at first. but it just isn't what it claims to be.

Hey, so im working in AD and want to colour correct one particular image on a dartboard of ,many elements. When i alter the colour of chosen image the whole document changes? (i actually discovered this by making the correction off the dartboard, dragging it on and seeing my whole board change before my eyes) is there a way to change the levels on only my selected image? thankyou

Both vector and pixel brushes pose this problem to me. so i draw a line lets say i chose to draw that in 100% black, i can then draw another line over it, same colour, brush, persona, and it will darken the lines where they cross, making 'colouring in' a nightmare as everything is totally different shades.

further images to help explain... one image of the black in acrobat one of the black unticked in acrobat showing as grey one of the original document showing 000100 cmyk black.

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hi, i have a major issue, and please bare with me as im new to everything, i have a job which is being sent to print (press ready). I created it on a press ready document. when i export the file as a press ready pdf, and bring into acrobat to check my colours, the black is not black and doesn't knock out, it comes through as a grey tone. spot colour knocks it off but the client doesn't want to pay for a extra colour. my cmyk sliders are set to 0 0 0 100 for black, the padlock is NOT locked, and it still isn't coming out black? i really really need help with this. i just got taken off the job as after 2 hours i couldn't work it out. all and any help is greatly appreciated. im not super technical so laymen's terms if possible please. its the second job ive been taken off for the same reason, colleagues have attempted to help but they don't use serif and haven't found a solution either. i really need to be able to send work to print and refuse to learn illustrator as in depth as i understand AD. But having no knowledge in repo and print i might be missing something? i hope this is a solvable problem and not a problem in AD.

Hey, so im currently working on a cartoon image... i worked on one previously, in vector mode, and when i coloured using a brush (any brush) it came in at different shades even though my opacity is set to 100 , I've tried every controller setting. not matter what i do, where lines cross over it shades - goes darker. driving me crazy lol. just want to draw/colour in one block shade. it worries me for future jobs that will be sent to print and not too web. it also happens with the pencil tool, the only way i can find to fix this is vigorously colour the whole thing again which is way too time consuming. please helppppppp

I have the same problem! Hopefully someone can reply with a solution?

Hey! Thanks for the reply. Its both really, ive managed to get the colours correct it was a issue with my colour profiles not matching up. And the lines on the print seems to be an output issue, being as the rest of the office is on rival software and everything comes out perfect with no advanced settings. It is not a printer issue 99.9% sure of this.

Hey! Thanks for the reply, really love the programme, I'm putting old timers in the office to shame! Is there a way around this?

hey, so i have an Ai file i downloaded from adobe stock images, i brought it into illustrator to save as a compatible pdf file (as when i was bringing it in AD it came in as a split jpeg). i know have it as a vector i can work with but here's my problem, AD seems to be applying 'passthrough' essentially blacking out all the components to the drawing, and i can't work it out! I've had this happen a few times now and would love to know how to fix it. i will add the file this is happening with (the file version that has compatible PDF). 111.ai

Hi, thanks for the reply i actually fixed the problem it was me lost in a mindfield. I had custom set my paper size to my document size , my bad.

when I send a document for print it does not come out with the tick marks. I have checked the box to include them, they can be seen on the file but when I go into the print menu and scale they dissapear, and without reducing the scaler which I don't want to do I can't get them in the picture. please help. everything in affinity works so well the only problems I have is when it comes to printing. colours are wrong, lines across things, no ticks cant scale etc. really frustrating me lol. I work in a design/print environment, no one can work it out, multiple printers all good spec and working, the problem seems to lie in affinity design but if its me, a setting or what, I do not know!

hi, I'm really struggling with an aspect of affinity. im by no means an expert in Macs, design, or print. im using affinity to design lots of different things for the job I do. everything works brilliant except when I come to print. I will print documents, they are all correct colours, some files I attempt have even been sent back from a printers, my colours do not come out correct, and I have tiny lines running all the way across the prints. I've used various printers all in the office, quite good spec ones, and also played about with the settings but can not get to the bottom of it. as soon as I upload said files into illustrator they print perfect. ANY help would be much appreciated. (currently converting a office of workers 30+ years in the industry from adobe to affinity)