From the course: Print Production: Spot Colors and Varnish
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Creating and using mixed inks
From the course: Print Production: Spot Colors and Varnish
Creating and using mixed inks
When you're working with just two colors, it can seem like you have a very limited palette to work with. Here, I've created a gradient that goes from a spot color to black. But you can see how anemic it looks and it's sort of grayed out in the middle. Let's take a look at separations, an this'll give you a better idea of what's going on. When I go to Window > Output > Separations Preview, and then turn ns. I get a truer look at what's going to print and it's still not good enough. If I turn off the 187 you can see that the black starts at 100% at the top and it fades off to the bottom. And then the red, the 187, is doing the opposite. So, as they fade out, it gets very weak in the middle of this gradient. So to strengthen this and to make a much more attractive gradient, I'm going to use a great feature in InDesign called Mixed Ink Swatches. In the Swatches panel- Go to the Panel menu, and I choose this, New Mixed Ink Swatch. What this lets me do is combine a spot color and a process…
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