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Understanding "rich black"

Understanding "rich black"

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Understanding "rich black"

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- [Instructor] If you're creating a design that has large areas of black you might need to use a rich black instead of just plain old 100 K. And that depends on how your job's going to be printed, If it's printed on an offset press you probably need to create a rich black. If it's going digital, you probably don't have to. Well, how do you know? Well, you talk to your liaison at the printing company and they can tell you which way it's going to go. To make things easier on myself, I'm going to change a couple of things in my environment. By going up to Essentials, switching to the Advanced workspace just makes it easier for me to get to my swatches panel. And I'm going to tap the W on my keyboard, and that switches me to preview mode. What I need to do is change a preference, so on Windows, I'll go to Edit, Preferences and Appearance of Black. On the Mac, you'll go to InDesign, Preferences and Appearance of Black. And…

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