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Overprinting black saved me 3 hours of trapping work
Had a 500 piece run of business cards with tiny white text over a dark photo. Spent hours trying to trap it right, then just set the black text to overprint. Cost me a 2 minute fix instead. Has anyone else just given up and used overprint for tricky text?
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perez.cole5d ago
Overprint is basically the "try it and see if anyone notices" button of design work. Love that it saved you 3 hours though.
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sam_harris685d ago
Had a job last year where 2000 menus had white knockout text over a rich black background. Same nightmare with trapping until I just made the black plate overprint everything underneath. The white text was a spot varnish anyway so it didn't matter if the black overlapped. Saved me probably 4 hours of adjusting choke spreads by hand. For text under 10 points that's totally reversed out I say just go for it. Always test a proof first though, some RIPs handle overprint differently and you might get weird ghosting.
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