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Yeah, they shouldn't need to worry about all that. What are they printing ON?

Have your image in CMYK, send em the vector file, and they should be good.

I've never had to worry about anything past converting it to CMYK.

CYMK should handle what they are asking anyways. That's what it means - Cyan Magenta Yellow Density(K). Single channel for black - the density. Three channels for color - C, M, Y.

Oh and it's www.printing.com that I'm doing it with. I've never had a problem with them before but I'm printing through a different franchise with this particular client.

Yeah - if they have the PSD they should do it for you especially if you don't know what they want. May be time for a new printing company....

MarkCCDC wrote:

Yeah - if they have the PSD they should do it for you especially if you don't know what they want. May be time for a new printing company....

Not just 'do it for you'...... more like - ".... do it for you, and it will take less than 3 seconds"

The staff at these companies should have at least some prior working knowledge of all the most common software available.

Personally, I would finish your work with that company, just to take care of your customer.... then never go back. Obviously it's a small time operation, or they got new staff that don't know anything (sounds like the company I used to work for)

Either way, considering your line of work, I would seriously consider finding someone else, as these people will be a thorn in your side on every project from here on out.

try this:

select all the text
use the channel mixer in the image/adjustments menu or use an adjustment layer.

go through the CMY channels and put the respective sliders at 0
go to the K channel and either ramp the black up past 100% until you reach 100% in the K channel or move the C M or Y sliders up until you get to 100% black.

If you have an older version of photoshop you can't go past 100% but on CS3 you can.

here's an example if you want to download it:
http://users.rcn.com/ppossenti/text.psd

not sure why they would want the blue in 3 color only but it sounds like you found a good solution

PeterP wrote:

try this:

select all the text
use the channel mixer in the image/adjustments menu or use an adjustment layer.

go through the CMY channels and put the respective sliders at 0
go to the K channel and either ramp the black up past 100% until you reach 100% in the K channel or move the C M or Y sliders up until you get to 100% black.

If you have an older version of photoshop you can't go past 100% but on CS3 you can.

here's an example if you want to download it:
http://users.rcn.com/ppossenti/text.psd

not sure why they would want the blue in 3 color only but it sounds like you found a good solution

Thanks for that... that's actually what I did straight off the bat but it looks grey - especially when you have the 4 colour black next to it on that compare box (in the colour picker)... Anyway, if that's all that I needed to do then I guess that's good for future reference

Thanks!

excellent stuff, thanks again.

p.s. yeah it was just on screen that it looked grey - infact just within photoshop... i did a 'save as' as a jpg and the text looked perfectly black.