How to convert text to true black from composite ("rich") black in a colour CMYK document for print

[gkmachine]

Hi,

I'm struggling to find how to do this....hopefully someone can help.

Is there, when adding text to a CMYK colour document for print, a way to ensure that it is only true black, i.e. K only (and no C, M, and Y)?

I've been told by the printer that due to there being very narrow text in my document that to ensure it's not blurry due to even the most minor plate misalignment, it's best not to have this black text in CMYK and best to have it just in K.

Thanks in advance

Gordon

 

 

[thomaso]

Hi @gkmachine,
welcome to the Affinity forums!

Set the text color in your used text styles to  0 | 0 | 0 | 100. You can save this as a global swatch in a document palette. Or, in a CMYK .afpub, use the black swatch right of the palette menu to apply this k-only black.

For already created text you can either adjust the color in your saved styles in the Text Style Panel (–> Text Style Editor > Color > Text fill), or use the panel Find & Replace > Cog menu button > Format accordingly. With both this ways you don't need to select each text frame + assign the wanted color swatch.