Grayscale PDFs

[Ben Warburton]

Hello Framers

 

Our company has just changed printers and I have received a request for
grayscale print-ready PDFs rather than the full colour PDFs we have
always delivered (the Adobe recommended method of producing PDFs for
sending to commercial printers). To generate grayscale, we used the
Properties > General Tab > Printing Preferences > Paper Quality tab >
Color = Black & White option. The resulting PDF was less than two-thirds
the size of the original colour version. My question to the list is,
what kind of impact if any is this likely to have on the print quality?

 

Regards

 

Ben Warburton 
Documentation & Training Manager 

Wilcom Pty Ltd 
146-156 Wyndham St
Alexandria NSW 2015
Tel: 9578 5175
Fax: 9578 5108
Email: BWt at wilcom.com.au