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Black First or Last?
(This was originally posted in the prepress forum, but it's been suggested that I should have put it in here. More responses are available there.)
We print black first, here at the print shop where I work, on multi-color, mulit-head press jobs. Apparently, this helps with the drying of the ink. The local ink supplier has everyone in this mid-sized city printing this way. Obviously, this is the opposite of what every novice prepress person has been schooled to expect, as well as the opposite of the way all software deals with black by default. I'm finding I have to tell black to quit overprinting, which is only a little less unnerving than driving through a red light.
I'm very curious to hear whether this is the way others print. Do you print black last and solve the drying issue some other way? Or do you simply disregard that little "halo" that one gets when a yellow trap lands on top of the black?
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