Placing a monotone image Vs. colorising greyscale TIF?

[junglist]

Is either method preferable for any reason, from a pre-press perspective or otherwise?

Just curious.

Thanks for expanding my knowledge.

 

[blueark]

I've never come across a problem coloring greyscales in Quark, and it's much easier to make changes. Also, you're guaranteed to match the color of other items in Quark, rather than creating an extra separation because you forgot a space in the color name....

 

[signal49]

I agree with blueark.

Also, tif is probably a smaller file than eps -- correct me if I'm wrong!

 

[junglist]

Yeah, I think tif's are usually smaller.

 

[riverdoglb]

Junglist,
It depends on where you're sending it. Some pre-press rips convert colorized tifs to CMYK instead of spot colors. Mine did until I installed a Creo xtension. Supposedly, Quark 6 addressed that issue and you didn't need an extension but I'm still having problems with it converting to CMYK. Monotone images are good but as blueark said, make sure all of the spot pms colors are named exactly the same; i.e. PANTONE 286 C in Quark and PANTONE 286 CVC in Photoshop will output 2 colors of film.

 

[BodesMan]

Talk to you printing company to see how their rip handles colorized greyscles. Like RiverDog, I use the same extension that he uses that can handle colorized files. But some printers may have to recreate your files into monotones because their rip has problems with these files, this could add more time to a rush job and could be costly if the printer has to do it.

RiverDog -- have you run into this problem using the extension where you have a colorized greyscale that has the same PMS color, but the foreground and background are differnet %'s. When you rip the file down on the % of the foreground color shows up the background color drops out.

If you have seen this, do you know if there is newer version of this extension? For now we just create monotones to get around this.

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