[mikeverga]

Anyone know how to design a cd face in Quark where the lettering instead of being a color is transparent and therefore either the silver of the CD itself is visible through it or if you are printing on the inner hub then it's transparent. Look at the URL http://marvin.mrtoads.com/silver_surface.html I'm talking of an effect like the one applied to the Breeders cover for example.

Same idea with the EMI logo on this URL. I would be using white instead of red but what I want to achieve is the technique they used to write EMI Classic. http://marvin.mrtoads.com/disc_critique_vw.html

thanks

[andi*pandi]

sounds like a job for illustrator or freehand to me.

You can in quark outline text, and then stroke the path, but if you want to combine other objects and do complex paths, you really should be in illustrator.

[mikeverga]

would if be possible to have the printer knockout the color of that text?

[buddhabelly]

Originally posted by mikeverga:
would if be possible to have the printer knockout the color of that text?

I agree. In quark just set the type on top of the box (like EMI) and give it a spot color named knockout or something and tell your printer.

You can do it in Illustrator or Freehand with path operations as well. In fact, as of Quark 4.1 you can outling the type in quark and do path operations there too.

[bluedog]

Set your color to WHITE. Then it won't print on that area! Supposing you are using one of the inkjet print-on-the-surface-of-a-CD printers.

White is NOT A COLOR when it comes to consumer printing. Sure you can use a white ink, but your laser printer won't know it.

Try it once.

Or better yet, have someone give you a piece of yellow paper and ask you to print a White Elephant on it from your inkjet or laser printer. Good luck!!!

[buddhabelly]

DuH!

I just assumed they were acutally being screen printed, where white really could be a color. Nice tip bluedog.

[godzookie2k]

Originally posted by buddhabelly:
DuH!

I just assumed they were acutally being screen printed, where white really could be a color. Nice tip bluedog.

depends on how they are being screen printed. White isn't always a color in screen printing.