Mixing ink in Illy Q
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- Ranger
I need to make some EPS logos. 2 colour, 286 and a black. I need the blue fading to black as a gradient and want a blue/black rather than a gray inbetween them. Is there a way to do this in illustrator?
- lajj0
2 shapes, one blue gradient to nothing, the other black to nothing and overprint the one above.
- blue? where that I got that??lajj
- ok 286 is blue, I was not crazylajj
- This idea is pretty good, though I would overprint the black, not the 286.TheFatBaron
- i agree - could you do straight blue box w/ trans to black gradient?bulletfactory
- horton0
or solid blue shape with dupicate black/white grad ontop.. set to multiply for visualizing, overprint for press.
- Ranger0
I've previously used the ink mix in Indesign, made the gradient with the mixed inks and taken it into illustrator. This separates out fine in acrobat but I've had a few people moaning when I pass on the logos to other places as they can't see the inks being used in illustrator. I know it isn't a very good answer and want to sort it out properly.
- Ranger0
Sorry I should've said – i didn't want to complicate things – there is also a white band running through the blue as a highlight effect. So any overprinting will cause problems if the logo goes onto a background.
It's very annoying. If you export as EPS from InDesign it rasterizes the gradient and makes it an image that is placed into a clipping path, making it no good for scaling.
Thanks for your suggestions though.
- you could move white grad to shape ontop using a transparency mask... ?horton
- horton0
you could also create a custom CMYK black with 100K + the 286 values, will be a smooth grad.
the 286 and a stock black will grad fine off the press.