Color Misconfiguration

There seems to be a problem with my color settings. The default Black is not coming up at C: 0 M:0 Y:0 K:100- It comes up as C:75% M:68% Y:67% K:90%
What the heck is going on?
I tried setting back to my default work space- But that didn't word.
Please help!
Thanks!

Go into the color settings under the Edit menu. At the top of this dialog box there is a section called working spaces. Go to the CMYK portion and click on it. Select Custom CMYK at the top. A curve dialog box shows up. Where it says Black Generation, set that to Maximum.
Click OK.
The name of your color space is not SWOP (Coated), 20%, GCR, Maximum
Click OK again to get out of the color setting dialog box.
Now when you create 100% Black objects they will be just that.
Please be advised that this is not the best color setting for reproducing 4 color art, but then again I have no idea what you are creating. Just be advised as others have told you in this thread.

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