[andi*pandi]

hey all:

designed two-color job in Quark. used the multi-ink feature to overprint the colors in places, thereby faking a 3rd color.

Prepress now claiming that Rampage is converting multiink to process, no way around it, so fix.

Is he full of it, or just not know what he's doing? Anyone else used multiinks successfully? How else to spec overprinting colors in quark?

blah. See if I try and save money again by making 2/c instead of process.

[buddhabelly]

I'm not quite clear on what multi-inking does or how it works in Quark. Rampage does have problems with spot to spot and spot to process blends. If all multi-inkind does is change the way the colors trap, etc, then Rampage by default is setup to ignore certain quark settings, including trapping. Are you using this effect only in drawn artwork, or also on bitmapped images?

I'll have to try this at work.

[Corys]

Multi Ink ONLY works in a pre-sep workflow. It's a Quark thing
most workflows in todays prepress shops are composite workflows (making the multi-ink setup in quark a PITA)

When I get in on work monday, I will check the RAMpage technotes. I know there are some ways to get it to work.

probably the easiest solution, assuming the job isn't that large is to make your job Cyan and Magenta.
Cyan=PMS 185 (or whatever)
Mag=PMS 206 (or whatever)

then you can create a new color with a 30%C 50%M and it will seperate properly. won't look that great on screen, but it will work.

I know it will work as it is tho, I have ran them in the past, just can't remember all the steps to get there.

[Corys]

well, I think your are SOL..

Checked the Technotes, and the only solution is to save the files as a Pre Sep Postscript file and run it through Rampage...only downfall is you can use Rampage trapping..

so you can either hand trap everything, or convert it to C/M.

[andi*pandi]

what I ended up doing was making one of the colors overprint. Don't think it would work for all jobs, it just happened that where I'd used the color overprinting would be just fine.

Of course, it's not back from print yet. Grrr.