Adobe InDesign CS4 - Manual (Page 466)

458 USING INDESIGN CS4
Color
3 To include an ink in the mixed ink swatch, click the empty box next to its name. An ink icon appears. A mixed
ink swatch must contain at least one spot color.
4 Adjust the percentage of each ink included in the swatch by using the slider bar or typing a value in the percentage box.
5 To add the mixed ink to the Swatches panel, click Add or OK.
Colors on a monitor often look different when they print. For best results, ask your commercial printer to output a
sample of any mixed inks you want to print.
Create a mixed ink group
1 From the Swatches panel menu, choose New Mixed Ink Group. (This option is dimmed until you add a spot color
to the Swatches panel.)
2 Type a name for the Mixed Ink Group. Colors in the group will use this name followed by an incremented Swatch
suffix (Swatch 1, Swatch 2, and so on).
3 To include an ink in the mixed ink group, click the empty box next to its name.
4 For each ink you select, do the following:
• For Initial, enter the percentage of ink you want to start mixing to create the group.
• For Repeat, specify the number of times you want to increment the ink percentage.
• For Increment, specify the percentage of ink you want to add for each repetition.
5 Click Preview Swatches to generate the swatches without closing the dialog box; you can then see whether your
current ink selections and values produce the results you want, and make adjustments if they don’t.
Note: An alert appears if the values you enter for Initial, Repeat, and Increment add up to more than 100% of any one
ink. If you decide to proceed anyway, InDesign caps the ink percentages at 100%.
6 Click OK to add all inks in the mixed ink group to the Swatches panel.
Edit mixed ink swatches
You modify a mixed ink swatch using the same methods used to edit other swatches. As you edit a mixed ink swatch
or group, be aware of the following:
• If you use the Swatches panel to delete an ink that is used in a mixed ink swatch, InDesign prompts you for a
replacement. A mixed ink must contain at least one spot color, or it will be converted to a process color.
• Changes you make to the parent of a mixed ink group apply to all mixed inks in that group. (Changes you make
to a swatch in a mixed ink group apply to that swatch only.)
• Converting a mixed ink to a process or spot color removes its association with its mixed ink group.
• Deleting the parent of a mixed ink group deletes all swatches in the group.
1 In the Swatches panel, double-click the parent of the mixed ink group you want to change.
2 Do any of the following:
• Select a new ink to replace an existing component ink.
• Click the box next to an ink to exclude or include it as a component of the mixed ink group.
Note: You cannot change the initial percentages, repeats, or increments used to create the mixed ink group.
3 Click OK.
Updated 18 June 2009