: How do I print black 100 text from Photoshop? I am trying to make a design for a book's double page. The design is composed by vector art (made with Illustrator) and a photo. The artwork

@Kevin459

I checked the Printing Output preview as suggested by go-junta and the problem was indeed on my side. I opened the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Pro and then to Output Preview Dialog in Printing Production Tool. As the picture below shows, the text is still visible, even tough the black is unchecked, which means my PDF is defined as rich black.



Since the text colour was set as black 100, in Photoshop, I think that what might caused the mistake is that I set the colour profile to CMYK Coated FROGRA39 - Brazilian standard - twice.


Via Colour Preferences (Ctrl+Shift+K) I set the PSD colour profile.
When saving as PDF, I checked the options highlighted in the image below in to ensure that FOGRA39 was been used.




I tried to export without checking those colour options (in the picture above) and it worked! I guess the double colour convertion was converting the black 100 to rich black.

If I said something wrong, please correct me. But, for now, this issue is solved!

Thank you!

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@Holmes874

Go and check your preferences in Illustrator - you can control the way Black appears onscreen and how it is outputed (by default) to pdf. I think you can also control this for consistency across all Adobe applications through Adobe Bridge.

Colour and profile handling is pretty important and there is plenty of advice available online. Google 'Adobe colour management' and 'Adobe print profiles' for more search leads.

Good luck

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