For black and white digital press

Hi guys,.

I am currently working not expensive Foundation type magazine that images of the Interior will be black and white. The actual printing company has been selected yet (so I can't ask for advice on how to work with them) but it sure it will be digital (not Offsett Press). I would ask that you to have some basic tips on:

(1) who is supposed to be the minimum dpi and the best format for digital printing? I spoke to one who told me 200 dpi and the file in JPG format is fine. I don't know if that is universal, or just applied concept on this specific printer.

(2) can I convert images to grayscale or keep them as CMYK but in black and white? I dunno maybe I get more deep rich blacks with CMYK.

(3) a good tutorial on the web (or on this forum) on the conversion of images in black and white? Long ago, I found a good Photoshop Action with many variants to choose, but I don't find it anymore.

(4) if he's going to be for the digital press should I work with images differently from the press Offsett. Maybe in digital should I overexposed them or so, I don't know.

Sorry for too many issues, but since I'll prepare lots of images at the same time, I didn't have the free ends.

Thanks for any info.

See you soon,.

SEBS

(1) not necessarily, you can get some wobbly "shades of grey" appear. The obligation for the draw, it's that the inside of pages only use black, where coverage is all in colour, while they convert in any case so it's cheaper and faster. I guess that's not CMYK in all according to what you said.

(2) black Rich does best to type, but registration must be accurate or it seems soft. In the press, the misregistrations are ignored; If you have a budget was released, I'm sure that there is no compensation for "run and more.

Finally, depending on the printer, they may require a RGB artwork. Xerox true CMYK Adobe postscript.

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