Larsene Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 Hi, How to limit the ink coverage when generating a file for printing ? In photoshop, that's easy : Print Production--> Output Preview --> Total Area Coverage (i need to limit it to 220%) How to do that in Affinity Designer or Photo, to prepare the file for my print worker ? Thanks ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsene Posted March 5, 2018 Author Share Posted March 5, 2018 No one can help me about it ? Perhaps Affinity designer or Photo aren't able to do that ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 Never really heard of a 220% limit. Even for newsprint. That said, there are no tools in AD/APhoto to specifically target ink limits. With vector files, it is easier to limit one's work as it is being made. But for images, nothing I am aware of. And there wasn't in PS up until I stopped updating, either. One can set/view the ink limits, but it was always fiddly to in-application massage an image manually to be below a threshold when that threshold is so small. Ink limits are generally the domain of the output ICC profiles and or ICC profiles used for force such a conversion. The print establishment should be providing such an ICC profile as it isn't an off the shelf profile that I know of. One can make a profile in PS, but that only really works out when one has PS to begin with. It's been a while since I did it (which was for a 240% limit for Blurb). So you would need to Google it. pdfToolbox can show ink densities, but that is after the fact of PDF creation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.