Print Pantone plate

Clark Kenyon

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- February 23, 2018 at 2:24 pm #101943
  
  Clark Kenyon
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  I have a client I’m doing a book cover for. Some of the text on the cover is in Pantone metallic ink. I sent her a PDF of the cover. Her printer is asking for a file with the spot color ink only. If I open ink manager and turn off the process color plates I can see the parts of the text that are in the spot color. But how would I go about exporting that as a PDF for the printer?
- February 23, 2018 at 2:32 pm #101944
  
  Pam Bomerito
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  Break out the text that is in the spot color and put it on a separate layer. Then lock the other layers down and leave the layer with the text that is spot color ON. Then make your .pdf.
- February 23, 2018 at 3:23 pm #101945
  
  Clark Kenyon
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  Thanks, I’ll try that.
- February 24, 2018 at 10:55 am #101954
  
  David Blatner
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  It’s very similar to this technique:
  https://creativepro.com/making-a-die-cut-shape-in-indesign.php
- February 26, 2018 at 2:50 pm #101981
  
  Graham Park
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  David
  How about an old work around.
  Print the page required as separations, in Ink Manager turn off the unwanted separations, to a Postscript file then Distill with Acrobat and you have a Spot Colour only PDF file.
  A bit crude but it works.
- February 27, 2018 at 4:22 am #102008
  
  Niels JÌürgen Pedersen
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  Graham Park: Why use destiller? You can print an pdf directly from InDesign as separations :)
- February 27, 2018 at 4:29 am #102010
  
  Graham Park
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  True but the printer wants only the Spot Gold plate, no way I know of in InDesign to output separations to a PDF and only end up with the spot colour plate except by using the Distiller.
- February 27, 2018 at 6:30 am #102011
  
  Niels JÌürgen Pedersen
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  You can turn the seperations on and off as you like :)
  - February 27, 2018 at 7:00 am #102012
    
    David Blatner
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    Niels: How?
    
    You can do this in the Separations Preview panel, but how do you output just one channel to PDF?
  - February 28, 2018 at 1:45 am #102027
    
    Niels JÌürgen Pedersen
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    David: In the “Print menu, under “general” Choose “Adobe PDF under “Printer”.
    Then under “Output” you choose “Seperations under “Colour”. Under “Inks” you click the colours you want, on or off.
    In “Set up” at the bottom-left, you can set up pdf settings.
    
    Press “Print” – and voila: You have a pdf with only the colour plate of your choice :)
  - February 28, 2018 at 7:48 am #102031
    
    David Blatner
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    Niels: Ah! Of course… I think that may only be available on Windows… I forgot about Acrobat’s PDF printer feature, because it has been disabled on the Mac for so many years.
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