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• • August 12, 2013 at 5:19 am #64786
    Gunter Schobel

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    Im working with a Catalogue that has around 1,000 images. Is there a quick way for me to set the max Ink for all of them to 300% inside of Indesign?
    Or do i have to this manually in Photoshop, Whatever way, what is recommended?

    All my images are already in CMYK, just in case

  • August 12, 2013 at 10:37 am #64795
    David Blatner

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    Once the images are in CMYK, you have already set the max ink for them. You could, in theory, force them into a smaller max ink using color management in InDesign, but it’s not fun. You have to “cross-render” the whole document to a different CMYK profile using “Convert to Destination” (but “Convert to Destination (Preserve Numbers)” when exporting a PDF.

    It is far better to keep your images as RGB and then simply export to CMYK when you make the PDF. I will write that process up as a blog post for you soon.

  • August 13, 2013 at 12:48 am #64816
    Gunter Schobel

    Member

    Great thanks for your reply :)

  • August 13, 2013 at 12:09 pm #64835
    Gert Verrept

    Member

    Did you know that a coverage of 260% is good enough? At http://www.vigc.org you can check it out. We are using their settings for some time now, and nobody has seen any difference. What you do see is that your ink consumption drops, spending less money on ink.
    You can set up a live profile to check which images have an in coverage above 300 (or if you wish 260), you can do it with the “separation preview” panel in Indesign and as David said, select a different profile to export to pdf, and do not forget “Convert to Destination (Preserve Numbers)”, that way your colors won’t shift.

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