Xerox Color 800i, Color 1000i, Color 800, Color 1000 Design Tips and techniques

Design Tips anD Techniques for prinTing wiTh clear Dry ink on The XeroX® color 800 /1000 presses

Simply applying a spot or ood of clear dry ink over your image or page can have a dramatic eect on your design.

Spot treatment

Specify clear dry ink to print only in specically designated areas.

• Spot over a photograph — Evens out the overall sheen and adds depth to your image.

• Spot over a solid color — Increases the depth and overall sheen of that color. Or, mimics a subtle tinted varnish eect by adding clear dry ink over a light tint.

• Watermark — Graphics or text printed with clear dry ink with no color or image below.

Flood coating

To “ood” your printed piece with clear dry ink is to cover the whole sheet with it.

• Provides an even sheen and a smooth consistent look across an image.

• Enhances digital image quality on textured stock.

Metallic

Print clear dry ink over Pantone metallic colors simulated in CMYK.

• Produces a metallic eect, especially when printed over light tints of simulated metallic colors.

Watermark

Using clear dry ink is a great way to print watermarks on your pieces.

• Provides notice for copyrighted materials or adds a graphic element to discourage copying of coupons or tickets. Watermarks can repeat across the entire page and are a nice way to add a soft graphic element to your design to quietly reinforce your message or evoke a mood.

Setting up your InDesign le

1. Add a new layer in the layers pallet and name it Clear.

2. Move the clear layer to the top in the layers pallet.

3. Add a new color in the swatches pallet and name the swatch Clear. This is the default in some color servers. It’s very important to use the same swatch name across all applications you might use. The swatch name is case sensitive.

4. Designate the Color Type as Spot.

5. Set the Color Mode to CMYK: 0/100/0/0. You can choose any of the 4 process colors and set it to 100%.

6. Assign the color Clear to lls and strokes of text or shapes created in InDesign and move them to the clear layer.

7. To print clear over an image, text or graphic,

set it to overprint so it will not knock out any image below. Select Window >

Attributes > Overprint Fill and/or Stroke.

Graphics from Adobe Illustrator

1. Copy and paste graphics from Illustrator into InDesign.

2. Designate the ll and/or line to be Clear.

3. Move all clear elements to the clear layer.

4. Set all clear elements to overprint.

Creating eects in Photoshop

To highlight an area of your image with a soft edge and/or a gradient ll, add a spot channel for clear to your Photoshop le. Save it as a TIFF or PSD le and place it into InDesign on the clear layer.

Creating a spot channel in Photoshop:

1. Create a new path or select a shape.

2. With your shape selected, add a new spot channel.

a. Name the new spot channel, use the same

name as your clear ink swatch in InDesign.

b. Select Color > M 100% or the same color

chosen in InDesign.

c. Select % value if desired.

3. Save as PSD or TIFF with spot color included.

4. Place into InDesign on the clear layer.

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Design Tips anD Techniques for prinTing wiTh clear Dry ink on The XeroX® color 800 /1000 presses

Creating a high-res PDF

Create a PDF preset for saving high-res PDFs right out of InDesign.

1. From the main menu select: File > Adobe PDF Presets > Press Quality and click Save

2. Compatibility > Acrobat 6 On the lower right side check >

Create Acrobat Layers

3. Select Compression: Color Images > Do Not Downsample Compression > JPEG Images Quality > Maximum Grayscale Images > Do Not Downsample Compression > JPEG Images Quality > Maximum Monochrome Images > Do Not Downsample Compression > CCITT Group 4

4. Select Marks and Bleeds, if desired.

5. Select Output > Color Color Conversion > No Color Conversion Prole Inclusion Policy > Include All RGB

and Tagged source CMYK Proles.

Click on Ink Manager and make sure the box for All Spots to Process is unchecked.

6. Click on Save Preset and name it; we suggest Xerox Digital Press Clear.

Checking your PDF

1. Open your PDF in Acrobat® Professional

2. From the main menu select:

Advanced > Print Production > Output Preview and check Simulate Overprinting.

If your le is set up correctly all areas

designated in Clear should be visible and on a separate layer. If you mouse over Clear areas the percentageshould change.

Troubleshooting

1. If the Clear swatch color has knocked out the image below, make sure that you have specied overprint.

2. For raster images brought in from Photoshop, make sure the spot channel has been set up correctly in Photoshop. The name must match between all les.

3. If some areas print correctly but other parts have knocked out, make sure the clear layer is at the top of all layers and nothing sits above the clear elements. If your le seems to be set up correctly, see your print provider.

Examples

A Copy of headline pasted in place on to the

clear layer. Clear ll applied and checked to overprint.

B Clear ll applied to rectangle on the clear layer

over image and checked to overprint.

C Mask for strawberries created in Photoshop

and feathered to create a soft edge. Clear applied in Photoshop by adding a spot channel. See “Creating a spot channel in Photoshop” on the other side.

D Clear ll applied to rectangle on the clear layer

over image and checked to overprint.

E Path created in InDesign on the clear layer,

lled with Clear and checked to overprint.

F Copy of headline pasted in place on to the

clear layer. Clear ll applied and checked to overprint.

G Adobe Illustrator graphic pasted into InDesign

on to the clear layer. Clear ll applied and checked to overprint.