Black polygon with Cyan and white type on it.

[dimitri]

a question for all the oldies here.
remember when we did black background with 60% cyan so the black looks much darker.
and the we put white text on it, left the black sharp, but blured the cyan so they won't be a registration problem?

how the f... do you do that in indesign. i try with black outline and knock out. is there any other way?

cheers

[almaink]

You mean a Rich Black keepaway. You need trapping software or do it manualy in Illustrator and save as a .eps or make a 60% box of cyan in ID and step and repeat at0,0 make the duplicate at 0,0 100 % black put a stroke of .6 white on the type in the cyan box leave the black text with no stroke and set the black to over print.

[dimitri]

thanks alminac, but it does sound a bit complicated.

what i have done now is a background with 100k and 60c, and than my white type with a 100% k outline which is set to knockout.

this does the trick for now. sorry about the trapping software, but i work in an agency and we don't output on film. just prepear the stuff.
i know, the printshop is reponsable for it, but we talk about perth, western australia. no one cares about thoose stuff here.

cheers anyway

[Sparky]

Originally Posted by dimitri

thanks alminac, but it does sound a bit complicated.

what i have done now is a background with 100k and 60c, and than my white type with a 100% k outline which is set to knockout.

this does the trick for now. sorry about the trapping software, but i work in an agency and we don't output on film. just prepare the stuff.
i know, the printshop is responsible for it, but we talk about perth, western australia. no one cares about thoose stuff here.

cheers anyway

Perfect solution.

Remembering the days of Quark 4 (oh that would be today) we were always trapping manually. Our "Rich Black" was 60C, 40M, 40Y, 100K. What we did was to make a duplicate of the text box containing the white type and put it behind the original then colored it with a tint of .1% of cyan (you can do that in Quark) then set the white text to KO and the .1% cyan to "custom +.3" in the trapping pallet. Since the black background was set to overprint the only thing that got "Spread" back was the Cyn,Mag,Yel under it, and the .1% never printed (ever seen any output device that hold a .1% dot?)