Affinity Publisher Printing Black

[chirpy]

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

[Dazmondo77]

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 

[chirpy]

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.