2 color print job
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- hiatus
printing a poster using 2 colors. PMS 157c and black. how should I send the file. I'm forgetting.
I have this setup:
gray scale file with a spot color PMS. and Indesign file.feel like I am missing something. COuld I also send a CMYK file with the spot PMS in channels?
helps :(
- brandelec0
you can ask your printer?
- hiatus0
sending job to client then they are sending it to printer. just don't want to seem incompetent - haha
i've only done one other spot color job in my career, it was 6yrs ago and i forgot.
- bulletfactory0
package it and look at the colors used, it should say 1 process and 1 spot. then send a press quality pdf or ind package - however the printer specified.
- ********0
Set up the file exactly as you want it printed: 1 PMS color and Black in the InDesign file.
- inkpink0
if you're really unsure and no in direct contact with printer, add a page 1 to your document with directions and call out the 2 spot inks.
even if it's setup correct, there's a good chance it'll go to cmyk press if the client is arranging the printing.
a note to printer is safest.
- ********0
Your artwork should have elements in only the PMS color and in black; that's how you set it up. It's not complicated. Remove unused swatches (in the swatches palette) to be sure.
- "Select All Unused" and then delete them.********
- <alicetheblue
- "Select All Unused" and then delete them.
- inkpink0
hate to be a bummer but with client in charge, chances are pretty high that it'll still be printed cmyk.
anyone want to place bets?
- hiatus0
in swatches: paper, black, registration, PMS 157c? yea
Dam, I'm going to have to call the printer, I know it. :(
- ********0
As a designer it's always a good practice to be in contact with the printer during press runs. You should be there to look over proofs and ensure proper reproduction of your artwork, on behalf of the client. When you release the files, note clearly the stock you intend to use, the trim size, and the colors; it's all standard practice.
- thanks, I'm good with all that. I agree and do this often. but the 1 or 2 color print jobs are annoying. i feelhiatus
- ********0
a spot colour in your image file?
the indesign stuff is easy but check the image separates properly.
think indesign should do this for you but double check the image- he never once mentioned a spot in an image file********
- "gray scale file with a spot color PMS" - that's what was weird tithead********
- you don't have to insult me********
- show us your work, ckuntish********
- ckent > that's just a spot color applied to a grayscale in layout, not a PMS in image fileinkpink
- big diffinkpink
- he never once mentioned a spot in an image file
- hiatus0
the client is going 4 color now! ha :-D
but now I have to also make a pullsign. **sigh
more money, more problems! - RIP BIGGIE smalls:
- inkpink0
and i goes to 4 color... i win!
http://www.qbn.com/topics/603965…
in many cases a spot color job (even just 2 PMS) is more expensive for client than a 4 color CMYK.
make sure you modify your 157 swatch to a nice cmyk (0-44-71-0).
- This is not true unless the 4-c is actually digital.duckofrubber
- fuck that I just took the spot color out. It was more expensive. She9client) was trying to be all smart and shithiatus
- DoR; sure its true... with all the bulk CMYK offset printshops out there.inkpink
- ... most often a quote for 2C bcards is more expensive than CMYK. of course bulk shops are not ideal but tell the client that.inkpink