Overprint Indesign

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  • mekk0

    ^ If you place a PSD in InDesign, it appears as rasterized image even if you have vectors inside of it.

    There are multiple workarounds:
    1: Flat your figure in the PSD file to one layer with transparent background, then make a color fill layer with a clipping mask, 100% black (not #000, but C0 M0 Y0 B100) then convert it to a greyscale image and then convert it to a duplex with one full-tone color. Tell the printer to use that color as varnish.

    2. If you have the vector elements, copy them to your InDesign file and give it a new full tone color.

    With 1 your InDesign Colors should look like this:

    With 2 make sure to select 'full tone' when making the new color.

    Also your new full-tone colors must appear in Acrobat, if not, you done something wrong.

    I made an example for you to download here: https://www.wetransfer.com/downl…

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