K only in Publisher

[krommenaas]

I'm finishing the formatting of my novel. The book is all text, except for 4 images. The printer wants me to use K only. Some questions.

1) Can I trust that all my text is 100% K and K only, since it is black? If not, what do I do to make sure it is 100% K and K only?

2) I've made the images grayscale only before copy/pasting them to Publisher. I thought that was that, but I noticed a "K only" button when I selected an image. When I clicked it, the greys in the image just disappeared. That's not the idea of course, the greys should be lower % of K. I don't know if there is any CMY. How can I check this? How can I make my images 100% K inside Publisher without losing the greys?

3) One of my images is in Publisher as a "Pixel" object. I don't see how or why it's different from an image. This object doesn't have the "K only" button. Any idea why?

Thanks in advance!

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[krommenaas]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. I was asked to use CMYK colour format and Uncoated FOGRA29 colour profile though, so I probably shouldn't change that to Gray/8 and D50. All I want is for my handful of images to use only K, no CMY. Is there no way to achieve that? Surely novel formatting must be a common application of Publisher.

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[krommenaas]

So should I use grey8/D50 document settings, and export to CMYK/FOGRA29, or vice versa?

How do you get this Output Preview window? I can't find it anywhere.

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