On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 18:03, Louis Desjardins wrote: > ? (At) 12h00 +0000 16/09/04, Penelope Spencer ?crivait (wrote) : > >I have run into a problem with Kallkwik - my local printing shop. I > >want to print a run of folders which use 2 colours - gold and black (and > >shades thereof). To keep costs down, they suggested using pantone > >colours (pantone131 and black). They have now asked me to output the > >file in eps format using pantone colours. Can I do this on scribus? I > >couldn't find it in the the colours dialogue box. How have other people > >dealt with the issue of 'spot printing'? > > Hi Penny, > > I assume your job is meant to be printed on an offset press and not > on a digital printer/copier. Then, all you need from Scribus is to > output 2 plates, no matter what the colors are. Keep your "black". > For the "Gold", use instead "Cyan" or "Magenta", colors readily > available from Scribus. This will be a 2-color document that will > output 2 plates. Of course, your document will look strange on screen > but that doesn't matter.
we never see color anyway. :-) > > The colors that will be printed are not determined by the names of > the colors on the plates (or films) but by the actual colors in the > ink foutains on the press. er.. inks in the ink fountains. > > Ask your printer to show you a sample of that Pantone 131. You might > as well want to take a look at his Pantone Color Selector and select > something else. Once you have 2 plates, it is up to you to choose > whatever color you want. > > Last but not least : make it clear with your printer that the "Cyan" > plate is meant to be printed in Pantone 131. couple of things to point out: 1) gold ink is opaque. so it can only be used as a true spot-color. do not attempt tints and tones in gold ink. they often come out terrible unless you know quite intricately what you are doing. similarly, gold ink has a terrible time 'mixing' with other color inks in the halftone process. [gold 50%, cyan 30% = ugly, gooey, mess] 2) you mention a second spot color. from your email i gather you might want to create tints in this as well. before attempting the project, please spend some time personally at your pre-press and production house, understanding what screen angles, types of inks (these have to be translucent), the kind of image/effect, you wish to achieve. good communication solves a lot of problems later. it also saves you a lot of money in rejection, re-working etc. > > HTH ;-) > > Louis just my two-paisa on this. :-) LL
