Illustrator Help please
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- Amicus
I have a business card going to print with a greyscale graduated image within a clipping mask that I am trying print over a flat silver.
How do I create a pdf for print that will achieve this effect?
I don't what the black being muddied by overprinting the silver.
I hope you know what I mean?
- typist0
show the file
- Amicus0
uploading .ai now
is that ok, or does it need to be zipped?
- Amicus0
http://www.stkildashule.org.au/t…
hehe... using another clients server
- marychain0
Can you just post a .jpg so we can see it?
- MrOneHundred0
OK. It looks like you have this set up correctly already. You are over-printing the black onto the silver, so you will get the tonal qualities of the black on top of the silver. You will have to let your printer know this so they can lay down the silver first.
- Ah, yeah, so send it off as a hi-res (High Quality Print) PDF.MrOneHundred
- Amicus0
the black won't look pure black if it is printed on the silver though, it will look a little grey/brown.
what I want is for the half tone pattern of the black to be knocked out of the silver... is this possible with this file, and if so, how?
- Not really possible unless want a HUGE halftone dot. You could up the contrast of the black image.MrOneHundred
- MrOneHundred0
Even if that were possible, it would end up looking more grey and washed out. Because you wouldn’t be darkening the tonal range of the silver. Most of your black would, to the eye, just look like a similar grey tone to what you’ll get from the silver.
- Amicus0
That's what I thought...
I'll show this post to the boss.
Thank you so much.
- Yolo0
you could try saving your image file as a greyscale tif and colouring it silver in indesign
- MrOneHundred0
Technically, yes. but the ink needs to absorb into the paper, and the nature of metallic ink stops this from happening. Though most printers will give anything ago if you grease the wheels with some pharmaceutical precursors.
- epete220
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