InDesign / PMS
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- pyeaton
Hi folks.
Having a color issue with Indd. I am working on 2 seperate 2 color catalogs for the same client.
In both files I am using PMS 286 and K. In one file, the PMS previews fine, and prints fine. The second file however, is previewing and printing purpleish. Like I mentioned, both files are using PMS 286C.
Any ideas?
- pyeaton0
anyone?
- Gucci0
check if the colour settings are the same. ie: SWOP uncoated, sheetfed, etc.
Those settings can change from one doc to another... they shouldn't but they can.
let me know if that works out.
- pyeaton0
They are the same. The VERY bizarre thing is, is that between the 2 docs, when i view the color palette, one doc will show the 4C breakout as 100, 84 12, 4 (pupleish one) and the other will show the 4 color breakout as 100, 66, 0, 2 (the correct one). Now, to get this really bizarre, I copied a box containing the correct preview for the PMS to the (purpleish one), and i get this dialog box "A Spot color named 286 C already exists in this doc. The spot color you are copying will add an additional seperation plate to this document. Replace the copied color with the document's color instead?"
This is so bizarre!
- Soler0
make sure you select the same blue as coated or uncoated, they will print / preview differet.
also make sure color mgmt is same on both
- merritt0
Save a copy of your working file and test this.
With the purplish document, create a new random swatch ie Yellow. Then delete your Pantone swatch and it will ask you to replace with a swatch. Pick the yellow. All your existing Blues will now be Yellow. Then recreate the swatch Pantone 276 C. Repeat the process of deleting the yellow and replacing with your updated blue Pantone. This might refresh the glitch or allow the Pantone to be equal to the other Pantone in your other document.
- merritt0
sorry Pantone 286 C
- pyeaton0
Thanks, but Indd will not let me delete the 286 swatch at all. This is straight up weird!
- merritt0
You might have that swatch inside an ai. or eps file. Check that.
- pyeaton0
yes, that pms IS in a file. When I open it, it is fine. it previews correctly, and breaks out fine.
- aliceblue0
might this help?
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-b…
- mayo0
have you tried loading the swatches from the correct file and using those only?
- horton0
the PMS swatch imported in with the placed eps may have converted to a color RGB value. this has happened to me before.
or is it possible one swatch is overprinting? doesn't sound like it but maybe worth checking.
- knars0
i had this problem as well. 286 printed purple. I fixed mine in the printer setting by not letting inDesign handle the color conversion.
- pyeaton0
Thanks all. I have had no luck. I have set up a new doc using ink aliases, and that will be the fix i think.
Thank you all for your help tho!