Print deep dark black

[JoBasler]

Affinity Designer prints black on a Kyocera color laser printer, not really deep black.

Where can I regulate this?

Illustrator turns deep black on the same printer

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[Lee D]

Hi @JoBasler Welcome to the forums.

Have you tried making sure everything you want printed in a deep black is set to RGB (0,0,0) or CMYK 100% K?

[BofG]

28 minutes ago, Lee D said:

CMYK 100% K?

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That's not going to work... even if Affinity did support CMYK print it would be the wrong approach for rich black.

[Alfred]

33 minutes ago, Lee D said:

RGB (0,0,0) or CMYK 100% K

Rich black (CMYK 30,30,30,100 or similar) is always going to yield a deeper black than K100 on its own, isn’t it?

 

[BofG]

20 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Rich black (CMYK 30,30,30,100 or similar) is always going to yield a deeper black than K100 on its own, isn’t it?

 

Yup. Being subtractive each colour darkens the result. 100% of each is theoretically the darkest black, pretty sure the print driver would stop such a thing though. There are all kinds of "the best" mixes for rich black around.

Of course the 100k only point is moot here as it's not even possible with Afinity

[Alfred]

51 minutes ago, BofG said:

100% of each is theoretically the darkest black, pretty sure the print driver would stop such a thing though.

Agreed. 100% of each is used for ‘registration black’ but for anything else the TAC (total area coverage) limit is usually around 300%.

[JoBasler]

Thanks!

I have now switched from "HSK" to "CYMK" and set all black controls to 100%. It is working.

I had taken the file from Illustartor. There it worked like it was flawlessly.

That's why I didn't even come up with this solution.

This is getting annoying now ... I have to control all black areas in all transferred files and change them in this way.

Isn't there a smooth way?

Can I somehow search for all black spots and convert them at once

Edited September 9, 2021 by JoBasler