Indesign: Exporting to EPS Separations Problem

[sarah84]

Hi everyone... I'm new here. I really need some help with an issue I am having. I'm pretty new to all of this stuff, so don't be too hard on me & I'm sorry in advance if this is a really dumb question.

So I have a 2-color brochure in Indesign. When I go to print to PDF to check the separations, all four CMYK icons show up in addition to my two Pantones. Yet, when I actually print the separations, only my two Pantones show up, no CMYK (which is good and how I want it.) I was told in Indesign CMYK shows up in the ink manager even if there is no CMYK in the file. Is this correct? I assume so, since it is not showing up in my actual separations.

So here's my problem: I have to export my Indesign file as EPS. When I do this and then open the file in Illustrator and recheck my separations, CMYK is once again showing up AND showing up in the printed separations along with my two Pantone separations (which are both correct.) The CMYK separations are just showing up as blank white pages...

Why is it doing this and how do I fix it? I need to get rid of that CMYK. Someone please help me. Thanks so much... and sorry again if I sound completely ignorant..hah. Hopefully my question made sense.

Sarah

[zimmy]

Why do you need to get rid of CMYK?

[sarah84]

Because we're just doing the brochure as a 2-color job, not in CMYK. We're sending this file to another shop for negatives to be made. We've done this same brochure before, but there were changes to it, so we have to redo the negs/plates.. Last time I sent this brochure, the guy at the other shop mentioned the CMYK in there, and told me that since they were blank he didn't print them, but some places would go ahead and print them since it's in the file... which would not be good cause we'd be charged for four extra negs, etc.

I just figured I'd try to resolve this issue so he doesn't think I'm ignoring his advice. I mean, technically it's easy enough to just turn off the CMYK, but I still want to know why this is happening once I export to EPS. If that makes any sense at all...

[David]

It's probably coming from your registration marks.

[sarah84]

Thanks, you're right.

I just now figured this out and was coming here to tell you guys.. it was my crop marks. I guess Illustrator wasn't recognizing InDesign's registration color or something.

Thanks again for the help.

[prepress_brillance_43]

technically InDesign "registration" color is 100C 100M 100Y 100K, hence your CMYK.... Illustrator creates crop marks as "ALL" when saving as a pdf, also 100C 100M 100Y 100K... just to help... :wink: