Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
The Ink Manager options are especially useful for print service providers when printing
color separations for multicolor publications. For example, if a publication that will be
printed with CMYK process inks uses a spot color, the Ink Manager provides the option to
change the spot color to the equivalent CMYK process color. If a document contains two
similar spot colors when only one is required, or if the same spot color has two different
names, the Ink Manager lets you map the variations to a single spot color.
Next, you'll learn how to use the Ink Manager to convert a spot color to a CMYK color,
and you'll create an ink alias so that the desired number of separations is created when the
document is output as color separations.
Note
You can also open the Ink Manager by choosing Ink Manager from the Se-
parations Preview panel menu (Window > Output > Separations Preview).
1.
Click the Swatches panel icon or choose Window > Color > Swatches to open the
Swatches panel, and then choose Ink Manager from the Swatches panel menu.
2.
In the Ink Manager dialog box, click the spot icon ( ) to the left of the Pantone
3155 C color swatch. It changes to a CMYK icon ( ). The color will now print as
a combination of CMYK colors instead of printing on its own, separate color plate.
This is a good solution if you want to to limit the printing to 4-color process
without having to change this spot color in the source files of the imported graph-
ics. The All Spots To Process option at the bottom of the dialog box lets you con-
vert all spot colors to process.
3.
Click the CMYK icon ( ) that now appears to the left of the Pantone 3155 C color
swatch to convert it back to a spot color.
4.
Click the Pantone 3155 U color swatch, and then choose Pantone 3155 C from the
Ink Alias menu. (Scroll down if the name of the swatch is not visible in the list.)
Now any page elements to which either of the two versions of Pantone 3155 is ap-
plied will print on the same separation. (The sample document uses only Pantone
3155 C.) You don't need to do anything to Pantone Process Blue C. Because you
relinked the two missing graphics earlier in this lesson, the document no longer
contains any elements to which Pantone Process Blue C is applied.
