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My print guy in Tulsa said rich black was overkill on my 500 flyers, turns out he was right and I was wrong
I always figured 100% on all four plates was the safe bet, but he ran a test sheet showing plain 60/40/40/100 looked deeper with no smearing at that press speed. Anyone else got a shop that swears by one rich black recipe over another?
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simon_chen5d ago
That 60/40/40/100 thing makes sense once you see it on paper. The press guy I use explained it like this: too much ink on all four plates and the paper gets soaked, so it starts to set unevenly and you get that mottled look, especially on uncoated stock. He keeps two recipes, one for coated and one for uncoated, and the uncoated one runs lighter on the cyan and magenta side because that paper drinks ink. We ran a batch of 1,000 business cards last month and the lighter mix honestly looked blacker than the old 100 across the board version. Less ink, deeper look, cheaper run too.
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