Printing Question with InDesign

[Crooked Villain]

Hi All!

I was wondering is someone could give me a hand... I have to get a file to a client to send to their printer, and I can't understand a few things on the printers artwork checklist (and I can't contact the printer - not there!).

Issues are (as written exactly on printer spec sheet):

1. Colours have been documented, PMS and CMYK breakdown?
2. Any black is specified as C40% M30% Y 30% K100%?
3. Colour correct to file embedded colour/PMS book swatch or supplied colour swatch?

The file i am using is CMYK (no spot colours). I am not using black (but black is in photo images the file has placed in it). Colour management is turned 'On' in InDesign - default I am guessing (but I don't want to play around with if can help, as I have no idea what the bloody thing does). When I package the file, the 'instructions report' comes up with a listing/numbers of all the CMYK values... is that enough? (please tell me it is!)

Any help would be great - I am a beginner (as am sure you can tell)! Please write simply and in easy to use terms/steps!

[Kool]

You should be fine.

[Crooked Villain]

Really? I don't have to do anything... can it be true... so simple?

[Kool]

Yes, you don't have any PMS colors so the first one is NA. The color formula for black is called "Rich Black" and is used for solid black elements. It does not apply to black in a photo so that one is NA. The third one is refering to color matching to a PMS swatch, again you don't have any PMS spot colors so it's NA unless one of your CMYK colors has to match a specific PMS color. If that's the case then you would have to note which color it applies to.