quark cmyk colour match?
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- Blofeldt
In my Quark document, i've got specific swatches set to CMYK values, but when I place a Tiff image that has the same values, it prints out lighter. Any ideas?
I'm new to Quark by the way.
- rabattski0
prolly a printer issue. if it really is the same value than it should be fine when you do it proper.
- rasko40
probably the printers RIP, did you try making a pdf and printing from that?
- rabattski0
that's a good way to test it. you can also save it as an eps and open it up in photoshop to double check a colour difference possibility (which you shouldn't have if it's the same value).
- Blofeldt0
Woo, thanks guys. Yes, colours are fine, I exported as EPS as suggested.
I've another Quark question, whist we're at it. When I save a TIFF with a transparency, it comes out white, even after I've set the box bg properties to clear.
The image in the tiff is white btw.
- rabattski0
that doesn't work. you should make a clipping path (in photoshop) and save it as an eps.
- Blofeldt0
Thanks rabbatski, Quark's a pain compared to InDesign.
- jimeeboy510
since when can you save tiffs as transparencies? I thought you can only do that with gifs. Anyway, have you tried masking the bg to white in pshop, save as tiff or eps, import to quark, go to Modify>Runaround>in the Type dropdown, select Auto or Non-White. It will create a cliping path around your object.
- rabattski0
yep. and a lot cheaper as well. still working in xpress because i'm used to work in xpress. still need to get into indesign but there are some issues i need to resolve. maybe you know. is overprinting and knockout possible in indesign? can you easily work with spot colours and colours like pantone? can you print seperate films? is pdf the only output possibility? can you have a pantone pdf instead of cmyk one?
- rabattski0
hold on jimeeboy51. you can have transparencies in bitmapped tiffs and eps files (if you use clipping paths). the way you describe works visually on your screen if you print it out you will get very crooked ugly white lines around it.
- jimeeboy510
ahhh...thats a good tip. jot that down everyone! stupid tutorials have told me otherwise. thanks rabattski, you just saved me thousands of dollars on potential printing errors!
- goingpublic0
YES to all your queustions rabattski. I'm working with indesign quiet a while now and it works fine. I hope all printers can manage PDFs in the near future, it makes everything so easy!
- jimeeboy510
how easy is it to creat PDFX1 files acrobat 6? Do most of you printers out there create this file before sending to the printer? I used to send it out to get it done, but I've heard that Acrobat 6 can output it to that, but haven't gotten hands on yet.
- Blofeldt0
In Design is heaven compared to Quark 5. Yes, you can do all the stuff you mentioned. I don't know about the films think but spots and pantones is a bag of piss, as long as you're printer has In Design, whcih the only stumbling block.
In Design doesn't have a Collect for Print option so you have to be neat with your file structure by yourself though.
- rabattski0
no or not workable pantones in indesign? hmmm... printing seperate films isn't that important. just for me to check if everything is setup right. especially when i work with cmyk and extra spot colours.
- Blofeldt0
yES, YOU CAN USE SEPERATE SPOTS AND PANTONES BTW
- rabattski0
oi! i'm not deaf! :) thanks for the info (not english native so misreading / spelling errors are pretty obvious).
- Blofeldt0
WHAT? ;)