Trying to save print costs. Print black and white pages using only black toner (k) and color as cmyk.

[brianengland01]

We are trying to save print costs per page. We print books that have several hundred pages. Some pages are all text and most will have black and white line art with text. The text is almost always black. Books are made in Framemaker 11 and the art is done in Illustrator. Some of the art will have color. We export a pdf from Framemaker 11 using Distiller and print from Acrobat DC. We are trying to use the autocolor setting on our Minolta Bizhub C654e. The problem is that all pages are being counted as color. I am looking for a way to set Acrobat to print the black and white pages using only the black (K) toner, and to use cmyk on only the color pages. I have the text in Framemaker set to be black only. Our line art is 100% black and 50% black in Illustrator but occasionally we will have schematics and other graphics in color.

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

If you can’t set the DFE/RIP driving the printer to process a range of pages as black only, then you will need the incoming data to be recognised as black only.

Acrobat Pro Preflights/Fixups or third party tools such as Enfocus PitStop Pro can convert pages to black only, however you will obviously need to confirm that these count as black only using the “autocolor setting”.