I've been searching for this for over a week & finally thought I'd better go to the experts!
I have a 2 page document that has CMYK on one side and 100% Gayscale (with 2 Grayscaled bitmaps) on the other side. My problem is that when I go to print preview it shows the Grayscale as CMYK Separations. My printer is counting it as color instead of grayscale so we are being charged much more than the grayscale would be. I haven't changed anything in my color profile and actually deleted my ColorSettings.xml and rebooted Corel Draw to reset the color profile default. Still no change.
What I am used to (& what I need) is for the print preview to show my page 1 as CMYK separations and my page 2 as black like it used to. I do a lot of ads and need to be able to determine if there is any color in my document when there shouldn't be.
Problem number 2 is that around my grayscaled bitmaps when my document is printed there are thin black lines showing up where the edge of the photo is. None of which shows up in print preview.
I am using Corel Draw X5, Windows 7 - 64 Bit
Thanks in advance for any help!
Keachybean
I'm looking at X6 but X5 is probably the same.
If you print to a postscript device, the colour tab in the print dialogue gives you the several choices. Your current setting is probably CMYK but there is also a native choice as well as others.
The CMYK option will convert your greyscale page to CMYK, so you should try the native choice which I expect would output the pages exactly as they are. So the greyscale page should remain greyscale -- provided that all the objects on the page are already greyscale.
The problem comes with that colour page. You may have to make sure that the objects on that page are already CMYK otherwise they too will come out in whatever colour model they are currently.
And ... if its not a postscript device, you probably will not have the native colour output available.
Thank you for answering. I have tried the 'native' choice and it made no difference. It still prints and print previews as processed color.
It is crazy that I have this problem all of a sudden. It's like my Corel Draw just won't accept the grayscale. Even if I publish to PDF it sees the grayscale as process color.
I wish I could use the 'treat as' to treat as grayscale and just edit my color palette but it's not even an option.
This testing was all done after uninstalling and reinstalling Corel Draw this morning just in case my default color profiles had been messed up.
I'll see if I can get that to happen tomorrow, but I only have X4 and X6 to test with.
There is another possibility. Is there an option something like "use pure black" ?
I'm not sure if that exists in X5, and even if it does I'm not sure whether it affects greyscale images. But if it does, then it is worth trying.
The best option is to see the file, if t¡you can attach the file or upload to a free storage service (gigasize.com, yousendit.com, etc). Check if you have a lens or other effect, also check what color profile are using in the document
Here I am 2 months later and I am still having this problem. I now just ignore what the print preview shows me because I know it's wrong.
I have discovered that the grayscale photo's are what seems to be my problem and both Corel Draw and my printer see them only as process colors. (Even though I have tried both Convert to bitmap/grayscale and Mode/grayscale (on the photos only)).
I prefer to use the PCL driver for my printer because it's faster and it produces great color on my documents but have discovered that my color options show up only if I choose the PS driver for printing.
The PS Driver takes forever to print and doesn't produce consistent color reproduction.
Is there any settings in Corel Draw that I need to change so that my grayscaled photo's don't mess up my page and print as color even though they are not?