100% Black in Publisher

[JeremyTankard]

Please can you advise how I set up Publisher so the default colour for Black is 100% solid, not (C=72, M=68, Y=67, K=88). When I send to print as Black/White, the Black is tinted out.

Only way I can achieve solid black is to go through every page and text box and change each colour. Setting 100% as default would be VERY useful. Or a global colour change across a whole doc.

[mac_heibu]

Just define an appropriate color,  assign it to a paragraph style, and apply this consequently to you text.

[DrScardo]

Seems a bit long-winded - to none professional DIY designers like me - and many others I suspect, a simple palette with plain colours would not go amiss? After all at the moment we can choose from:

RGB, RGB HEX, HSL, CMYK, LAB, Greyscale - one more little choice wouldn't spoil that plot. I would've thought plain black was universally used for text more than anything else. If one is coming to this app from Pages or Word we don't necessarily use all its features, sometimes simplicity is best.

I use Affinity Designer to design my album / CD covers & gig posters, and am by no means expert, but it works for my needs. I bought Publisher as I need a bit more flexibility to create a Songbook to print professionally; importing PDFs of musical scores and mixing with text for lyrics and notes, photographs etc, so there's a lot of text creation and all of it needs to be black. I haven't got as far as learning how to create a "paragraph style" - and I doubt I will. With professional music creation software (Digital Audio Workstations) and professional musical scoring apps (Dorico) I've got enough programming / shortcut / layout protocols in my head as it is! 

Just gimme black text! Ta.

 

[thomaso]

In a CMYK document these 2 swatches are 100 K and 50 K, and always available:

 

[DrScardo]

Grand! Thanks for that - I in fact discovered them by accident an hour ago and thought I'd created them by luck...but now I know better!  

Great forum - lots of help.

[wonderings]

6 hours ago, DrScardo said:

Seems a bit long-winded - to none professional DIY designers like me - and many others I suspect, a simple palette with plain colours would not go amiss? After all at the moment we can choose from:

RGB, RGB HEX, HSL, CMYK, LAB, Greyscale - one more little choice wouldn't spoil that plot. I would've thought plain black was universally used for text more than anything else. If one is coming to this app from Pages or Word we don't necessarily use all its features, sometimes simplicity is best.

I use Affinity Designer to design my album / CD covers & gig posters, and am by no means expert, but it works for my needs. I bought Publisher as I need a bit more flexibility to create a Songbook to print professionally; importing PDFs of musical scores and mixing with text for lyrics and notes, photographs etc, so there's a lot of text creation and all of it needs to be black. I haven't got as far as learning how to create a "paragraph style" - and I doubt I will. With professional music creation software (Digital Audio Workstations) and professional musical scoring apps (Dorico) I've got enough programming / shortcut / layout protocols in my head as it is! 

Just gimme black text! Ta.

 

Make sure your document colour mode is CMYK. If you are printing RGB or anything else at a print shop it is going to get converted to CMYK so might as well start there. Other colours go about making black differently. RGB for example is Red Green Blue, there is no black so you cannot have 100% black with RGB, it will use other colours combined to give you a black. CMYK - Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black. There is black so you can obviously do 100% black and nothing else. RGB is generally for tv/web. There are places where RGB is good for print, but from what you have said I would say CMYK is what you should be using.

[DrScardo]

Thanks all

[rizzosan67]

Hello
I don't know if the information can be useful but if you don't select the "embed profiles" check box, the pdf export keeps the black at 100%

Regards