Printing Services Questions:

  • How can custom book bindery make my booklet look more sophisticated when I use printing services?

  • How do I avoid transparency, overprint and other issues with printing?

  • I’m not sure whether to choose digital printing or offset printing. Which one is best for me?

  • It’s important that my blues don’t turn out purple. How do I change color settings in order to prevent color issues from happening before sending my files for printing?

  • What are the steps to setting up an Akuafoil file for printing? What’s the difference between Akuafoil and cold foil printing?

  • What is Pantone color matching? Do using Pantone colors change my printing job?

  • What kinds of files would you allow me to send for printing and is there a specific color mode requirement? Also, how should my bleed marks and crop marks be arranged?

  • What's color banding in printing and why does it happen?

  • What’s a good rich black formula and what are the advantages of using it for printing services at J.M. Field Marketing?

  • What’s a grayscale image? Before using printing services at J.M. Field Marketing, how do I convert to grayscale in a document with CMYK?

  • What’s the difference between digital printing and offset printing?

Answer:

When an image is considered grayscale, it means that it only contains shades of gray. Black and white images are considered grayscale images because the shading of gray stretches from the weakest level of black to the strongest level of white. More often than not with printing services, sometimes you’ll want to convert to grayscale with an image that either has CMYK or RGB colors. If you’re using Photoshop, an easy way to convert to grayscale is to click Image/Mode/Grayscale. You can also use the Channel Mixer in Photoshop.

To be sure that your grayscale image comes out properly before using our printing services, you’ll need to check your  image for values other than K. This means going back to the final document and checking the current CMYK values before submitting for printing. When there are other values in your image, aside from K, your finished product may display varying colors. You can fix this problem by using Photoshop’s Channel Mixer and selecting the “Monochrome” option.

Printing Services Grayscale Images

You may want to use grayscale for a variety of reasons when you’re considering printing. Some of the benefits of using a grayscale image are light colors that brighten up the print, and an overall improved quality of the print in general. Another benefit of converting images to grayscale is that it’s a relatively cost effective process that will save you money when you use J.M. Field Marketing’s printing services.

What’s a grayscale image? Before using printing services at J.M. Field Marketing, how do I convert to grayscale in a document with CMYK? was last modified: February 24th, 2015 by Kara