Do I have to remap 0% "Gray Color" to 100% K black?

[mattbeals]

No, he named the PMS color so I know what it should look like. It's likely he doesn't know where it is either and is just trying to back us into a corner in case we don't match exactly.

Use an action list to put those objects onto a separate layer. Use that to show him.

[Farabomb]

That is a damn good idea. We have convinced them that it needs to be a PMS, the 4c ends up being one of those that does not match well. The PMS is 662 and should be a dark blue and the 4c match ends up more of a purple.

I'm still going to try that just so I can lean how to do it.

[mattbeals]

if you want a lesson, let me know.

[abc]

Much easier with 12 update 3 as we added a load of stuff related to working with layers!

[Farabomb]

Figures, I have a file in now that layers might help but I haven't had a chance to read up or try anything.

Platemaker is down, swamped, pressmen are having issues with the new plates, the AGFA tech is late and all the jobs today are rush jobs.

I hate printing.

[Joe]

So it is just a normal day in prepress?

 

[David]

abby normal

[Farabomb]

Worse than normal, nothing at all is going right.

[abc]

Figures, I have a file in now that layers might help but I haven't had a chance to read up or try anything.

to avoid confusion layers in Acrobat are not like layers in other Adobe applications. I wish they hadn't called them that.
Officially they are 'Optional Content Groups' or 'OCGs"

[Made in Taiwan]

I've been playing now for a while with this black/gray. Remapping works fine. For the RGB blacks I'll go with a combination of "Clean up RGB black" and remap afterwards. But if I set it to overprint, it still shows up as a knockout after the change. Feels like during the output to PDF, Word just gives the element below the text a new shape just around the text (actually I didn't, it just feels like). I've ran the original "Improve my office document" Quick Run from Enfocus and I get the same result. Is there any way to fill up the white areas? Otherwise I can skip this step to set the black text to overprint.

[mattbeals]

Device gray cannot overprint. K of cmyk can, separation black can. But not device gray.

[Made in Taiwan]

I've remapped it to100%K but it still doesn't overprint.

[swampymarsh]

Is it set to Illustrator Overprint Mode 0 or 1 (OPM=0)?

How are you determining that the object is not overprinting out and is knocking out?

Do you have a sample file for inspection?

[Made in Taiwan]

OPM = 0. I check the separations preview, and if I uncheck black, you can see the black text disappear and where it was before, afterwards it's white. 

Sample files are here: 
Before: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4vV6_zsh9xXem9NdWNQZlhUZ00/view?usp=sharing
After: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4vV6_zsh9xXMFZiUmpwUWpzNkU/view?usp=sharing

[Joe]

Run this global change to get the black to overprint.

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