inalmo2001 Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 el color picker does not reach 100% pure black. Whenever I add texts I have to force the black color to be c100 m100 and 100 k 100. What am I doing wrong, how do I configure it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @inalmo2001. Pure CMYK black is C0 M0 Y0 K100. ‘Rich’ Black is usually something like C30 M30 Y30 K100 — sometimes as much as 60 for the C, M, and Y components, but generally keeping the Total Area Coverage (TAC) down to 280% or less. I’ve only ever known C100 M100 Y100 K100 to be used for registration marks, which need to be clearly visible on each plate. Which Affinity app are you using, and what are your document settings? Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inalmo2001 Posted October 20, 2020 Author Share Posted October 20, 2020 Sorry, I wanted to say that to get pure black for printing C 0 M 0 Y 0 K 100, in affinity publisher when I put a sample of black with this value on the color screen, the values C 89 M appear in the color selector 78 Y 62 K 97, not becoming pure black and if I force it to C 0 M 0 Y 0 K 100 it comes out gray. attached screenshotssorry, I wanted to say that to get the pure black for printing C 0 M 0 Y 0 K 100, in affinity publisher when I put a sample of black with this value on the color screen I get C 89 M 78 Y 62 K 97, no becoming pure black and if I force it to C 0 M 0 Y 0 K 100 it comes out gray. attached screenshots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inalmo2001 Posted October 20, 2020 Author Share Posted October 20, 2020 I THINK IT COMES ALL FROM THE ENRICHED BLACK, BUT IF I WANT THIS TO BE THE BLACK FOR PRINT CMYK 000 100, HOW DO I CONFIGURE IT? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 You don't need to shout. So let's start from the start: What Colour format / Colour profile are you using in Document Setup? If the document is already CMYK, would be my advice: Hands off from the already existing palettes. Make instead your own palette, so you have "full control" over your document colours. Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inalmo2001 Posted October 20, 2020 Author Share Posted October 20, 2020 3 minutes ago, Joachim_L said: You don't need to shout. So let's start from the start: What Colour format / Colour profile are you using in Document Setup? If the document is already CMYK, would be my advice: Hands off from the already existing palettes. Make instead your own palette, so you have "full control" over your document colours. Sorry, I didn't mean to yell, it was accidental. The initial configuration of the document I have in CMYK, and in the end as a solution, that is what I am doing now, creating my own palette. Thank you very much!! Cheers Joachim_L 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 In this palette the black swatch on the right is 0/0/0/100K if the document is CMYK: inalmo2001 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inalmo2001 Posted October 20, 2020 Author Share Posted October 20, 2020 5 hours ago, walt.farrell said: In this palette the black swatch on the right is 0/0/0/100K if the document is CMYK: thank you very much for the contribution!! walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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