Okay, it seems that you’re using Custom CMYK and just choosing the Newsprint default. How are you converting your color images for the newsprint? – what settings, profiles, etc? A lighter black plate will allow them to do that with minimal effect on your image. When you have a heavy black plate, the image will automatically get too dark as the pressmen push the blacks. Because so much of newsprint IS black and white, the press operators tend to push the black densities to get the type as black as possible. Newsprint is notoriously difficult to print well on, but you really want to make sure that whatever you do that you use a skeleton black plate with the color separation. If you have both of those, a simple Curvesor Levels Adjustment will adjust the midtones.įor the color images, you really need to have a good ICC profile and a calibrated screen. You need to have a couple of things in order to make accurate on screen adjustments – the recommended dot gain for that grayscale space and a well calibrated monitor. Newsprint is typically 25-35 percent, but they should know what works there.
In addition to your endpoint dot recommendations, what Grayscale Dot Gain numbers do the prepress folks suggest? And what are you currently using? If your images are consistantly too dark, it points to your dot gain being too low. It sounds like you’re printing grayscale to newsprint.
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