Black turning to Gray

Hello,
When I save my illustrator file as an EPS and run it through Distiller to convert to a PDF it's changing my black to a dark gray. I have a jpeg image that the black is bumping up to and it no longer matches. What am I going wrong?
I am working in CS3
Any thoughts would be appreciated!
Cheers,
Sandi

Are you sure you're saving the pdf as RGB? You shouldn't even have "register" as an option in an RGB file, since registration is only used to register inks on paper. It sounds possibly like the "gray" is just the overprint preview of black in a cmyk pdf. Is overprint preview turned on? In a file intended to print as ink on paper, this option is used to reveal where overprinting different inks will create a darker appearance than a blank-ink-only option. (This can be a problem on press when done unintentionally). This is why "register" shows up darker than black only, since it's showing that overprinting multiple inks will create a darker, more saturated black than blank ink alone.
If this is for web, it will need to be RGB.

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