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You can read more about Ink Limits and the other settings found in the dialog box above here.Download area You can retrieve all important documents, information and colour profiles.ĭo you need technical information, manuals or colour profiles? The desired folder is just a click away, to download from the comfort of your own computer. To make it easier, be sure to preview your image in CMYK mode when working in RGB (Command + Y). Once your image is converted to CMYK, only slight adjustments should be made. The most important thing to remember is that you should do the bulk of your color adjustments and composition in RGB mode, saving the CMYK conversion for the last step. The best bet is to ask your printer what settings will work best on their output device and printing press. I would love to tell you that there is a standard setting that applies in all cases. I generally leave the black ink limit at 100% for newsprint, then make a special effort to adjust my images to not have too much Cyan, Magenta and Yellow in the darkest black areas. Now adjust your Total Ink Limit to something between 225% and 240%. You will notice the Dot Gain jumps up to 30% to compensate for newsprint’s tendency to soak-up ink. In the dialog box that pops up, set your Ink Settings to SWOP (Newsprint). Ink Limit settings If you know the file is going to be printed on a Web press, such as for a newspaper ad, change the CMYK setting to Custom CMYK. Most print work is done on a sheetfed press. The reason you don’t want to just leave the CMYK setting as it appears under General Purpose is that it defaults to a Web press setting. Sheetfed Coated v2 and save your settings. Then change the CMYK drop down menu to U.S. Your safest bet is to use the North America General Purpose 2 in the Settings drop down menu. If the image is already CMYK, there’s not a whole lot you can do to adjust it automatically though you could still make adjustments with Selective Color or Levels. All these settings occur when you convert an image from RGB to CMYK. This results in more detail in the darkest areas of an image. If you change that setting to something like 70%-80% you will find that when you convert the image to CMYK, any area that was 100% black will only be 70%-80% black. The Black Ink Limit tells photoshop that the darkest black can be up to X%. Optimal settings are usually in the range of this: In this box you can see an area to enter in an ink limit and dot gain. You access Ink Limit information in Photoshop by going to Edit>Color Settings and in the Working spaces area, you click the CMYK drop down menu and select Custom CMYK. At the very least, you may experience ink offset and extended dry times on your print job. Using a higher ink limit, such as a CMYK setting of 100% of all four colors, will generally result in a muddy image, or wrinkled paper. That means that if you want a nice deep black, you can run something like 60% cyan, 60% magenta, 40% yellow and 100% black – which is a 260% ink limit (or density). MOST commercial printers like to have between 280%-300% ink limit. Understanding and adjusting your ink limits can improve the quality of your printed piece. If your color in a document is 100% Cyan, 100% Magenta, 100% Yellow and 100% Black – you have a 400% ink limit (sometimes called density). Ink Limit is the amount of Ink of each color you put on the paper when printing.
