 | | From: | harold at boxcarpress.com | | Subject: | Trapping routines for thinner type? | | Date: | 14 Jan 2005 09:17:38 -0800 |
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 | We produce printing plates for letterpress printing. Because of the
large ink gain inherent to letterpress, digital typefaces often appear
too bold on the press. I am searching for a quick routine (or several
different routines, depending on the press) to reduce the stroke weight
of typefaces--in effect making them more spindly--so that they appear
the correct weight on the press. We're just trying to keep yesterday's
technology apace with the times.
I understand that applying a reverse trap could possibly accomplish
this effect. We currently use Xitron Navigator v. 6 and I wonder if
adding the Trapworks plugin could solve our problem with heavy type. We
output many plates from InDesign, which does have application-based
trapping, but I'd imaging in-RIP trapping would be more sophisticated,
right? Does anyone have any thoughts on how to accomplish thinner type
easily? I also wonder if Trapworks Lite could accomplish what we
need...?
Thanks for any feedback!
Harold
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| | From: | harold at boxcarpress.com | | Subject: | Re: Trapping routines for thinner type? | | Date: | 14 Jan 2005 10:48:40 -0800 |
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| This would be an option for native InDesign documents, but not for EPS
or PDF files placed into InDesign. So ideally, we'd like to avoid
manual stroking to be most flexible.
Thanks,
Harold
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| | From: | Mac Townsend | | Subject: | Re: Trapping routines for thinner type? | | Date: | Sun, 16 Jan 2005 00:53:28 -0000 |
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| Ask Xitron.
In <1105723058.251803.161290@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> harold@
boxcarpress.com wrote:
> We currently use Xitron Navigator v. 6 and I wonder if
> adding the Trapworks plugin could solve our problem with heavy type. W
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| | From: | Al Ferrari | | Subject: | Re: Trapping routines for thinner type? | | Date: | Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:19:37 GMT |
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| harold@boxcarpress.com wrote:
>
> We produce printing plates for letterpress printing. Because of the
> large ink gain inherent to letterpress, digital typefaces often appear
> too bold on the press. I am searching for a quick routine (or several
> different routines, depending on the press) to reduce the stroke weight
> of typefaces--in effect making them more spindly--so that they appear
> the correct weight on the press. We're just trying to keep yesterday's
> technology apace with the times.
>
> I understand that applying a reverse trap could possibly accomplish
> this effect. We currently use Xitron Navigator v. 6 and I wonder if
> adding the Trapworks plugin could solve our problem with heavy type. We
> output many plates from InDesign, which does have application-based
> trapping, but I'd imaging in-RIP trapping would be more sophisticated,
> right? Does anyone have any thoughts on how to accomplish thinner type
> easily? I also wonder if Trapworks Lite could accomplish what we
> need...?
>
> Thanks for any feedback!
> Harold
Does Indesign allow you to stroke the type? If so, then experiment with
varying amounts of white stroke to the type. I have used this successfully
in Illustrator.
Al Ferrari
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