Pro tip: Figured out my black text was always printing muddy because I had it set to rich black

Been designing flyers for 3 years and couldn't figure out why my small text looked like garbage until a press operator pointed out I was using C100 M100 Y100 K100 for everything. Anyone else get tripped up by this basic CMYK thing early on?

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garcia.miles15d ago

Right? @dixon.rose that tip saved my butt too, I was doing the same thing for way too long.

dixon.rose15d ago

Yeah I saw someone mention this in a printing group once, made me check my own files.