Indesign to PDF color marks

[inkeddog]

Okay, I have an issue I can't seem to solve.

I have an Indesign file that is 2 color: black and a PMS. I export the file for transfer to an imagesetter as a PDF using the Press setting.
Since there is bleed on the cover, I have to set the registration marks during the PDF process.
When the file is RIPPED, the color in the file is separated correctly, but the registration and crop marks are separating as CMYK. So I end up with 3 additional plates that I don't need.
The imagsetter I have will not let me print just the black and PMS plate, so I have to figure out how to rectify the problem during the PDF process.

Any solutions or suggestions?!?!?!
Anything would be greatly appreciated!!
THANKS!!

 

[jimoblak]

If you have the full version of Acrobat, print to a PDF file. This allows separations to different PDF pages.

 

[jmgalvin]

One option, if printing from Acrobat Pro (don't know about standard) is to click on the Advanced button on teh first print dialogue window.

You can then select Output and Separations under Color and, under Ink Manager menu, select Custom. That will allow allow you to select only the black and pms and exclude the c,m, and y.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[inkeddog]

I have been using the Export PDF option, as opposed to printing to a PDF file. It seems the graphics look much better when I prepare the file that way.

I'm guessing that from Indesign, I'm just going to have to Print to the distiller instead of Exporting.

I looked for the Advanced button, but there isn't one there in the Export fucntion.

Now, in the Ink Manager, I don't seem to be able to turn off any of the colors. Should I be able to??

I'm using Indesign CS (3.0) on a PC running Windows 2000.

Thanks to you all for the help!

 

[jmgalvin]

The Advanced button that I mentioned is in the Acrobat Pro print dialogue, not Indesign.



Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[jimoblak]

It seems the graphics look much better when I prepare the file that way.

Exporting to PDF and printing to PDF use two totally different settings. You need to match those settings if you expect similar graphic output.

 

[inkeddog]

Oh, I get it.

I actually don't print from Acrobat to my imagesetter, I copy the files over the network with this Hummingbird software. Apparently the imagesetter is Mac oriented (as it should be) but I worl for the State and no one owns a Mac, so all my jobs come in on PC.

I'm going to try and match the setting between Exporting and printing to a PDF and see if that works.

Thanks to you all for you replies!!

 

[RegistrationMark]

Be sure your printing in Seperations then you can manipulate the Ink Manager
Mark

 

[inkeddog]

Hey all,

I was mucking around with this issue and I here's something else:
when I make a PDF to send to my imagesetter, I need the PDF to be composite so the imagesetter can separate it and run a full auto frame (it seems when I print separations to PDF and RIP them the Indesign trap presets don't hold).
So, selecting to Print to Separations won't work for me. I need to Print or Export to a PDF as a composite with the crop marks only showing in the colors of the document (black and a PMS color). Is there any way to do that other than manually creating the crop marks in the document??

Thanks a bunch!!

 

[Eggles]

>>with the crop marks only showing in the colors of the document (black and a PMS color). Is there any way to do that other than manually creating the crop marks in the document??<<

As I understand it, the automtic crop marks are made in the 'registration' colour that shows in the Color palette. Although it looks black, it's more like a rich black in that it contains all the process colours. This is to ensure that the printers marks (esp the registation marks) show up on all the plates so that the paper can actually be registered (lined up corectly after each colour run, assuming older presses where the colours are laid down in separate runs).

I don't theefore think you can use the automatic printers marks in your case. You would have to manually draw them in, using just the two colours in your job.