chirpy Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 I am having an issue printing on my laser printer from Affinity Publisher where it does not print a solid black. When I print from InDesign with the exact same color percentages I get a nice solid black from my laser printer. Does anyone know what would be causing this issue? I attached a file with 4 swatches all with different black specifications and none of them print as a solid black from AP. black-colors.afpub Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazmondo77 Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 Bizarrely, Affinitys print engine is only designed for hobbyist printing to a consumer inkjet, and only supports RGB, so sending CMYK data results in converting to RGB then converting back to CMYK at the print end, which will always result in a 4 colour black (ridiculous) I've also found sending to a postscript printer direct from Designer and Pub results in what looks like pre- rasterising before hitting the rip - terrible - the workaround is to create PDFs and print via Acrobat reader or Pro - which will retain CMYK data and nice sharp vectors to the max of your printers capability. A few years ago Serif commented that they have no plans to change this (WTF) hopefully they will come to their senses and change this by version 2.00 Quote Mac Pro Cheese-grater (Early 2009) 2.93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon 48 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC Ram, Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8GB GDDR5, Ugee 19" Graphics Tablet Monitor Triple boot via OCLP 1.2.1 - Mac OS Monterey 12.7.1, Sonoma 14.1.1 and Mojave 10.14.6 Affinity Publisher, Designer and Photo 1.10.5 - 2.2.1 www.bingercreative.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chirpy Posted February 20, 2021 Author Share Posted February 20, 2021 Thanks for the reply. That’s very odd. Wonder why they wouldn’t fix that? Printing from a PDF every time isn’t very ideal. Dazmondo77 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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