Improve the look of black type and objects in print (InDesign CS/CS2/CS3/CS4)

Do the black headlines in your InDesign documents tend to look a little blah in print? You can make them and other large black areas really pop in your four-color print DTP jobs by using a rich black, rather than the default [Black] swatch. The difference between blacks.

To define a rich black swatch in the Swatches panel:

1. Choose Window > Swatches, or press [F5] to show the Swatches panel.
2. Choose New Color Swatch from the Swatches panel’s pop-up menu, or [option]-click ([Alt]-click in Windows) the New Swatch button.
3. In the New Color Swatch dialog box, deselect the Name With Color Value check box and enter Rich Black in the Swatch Name text box.
4. Define the swatch with the following color values: Cyan: 60%, Magenta: 40%, Yellow: 20%, Black: 100%.

Click OK.