Separations Preview and Ink LimitsĬlaudia McCue wrote a terrific piece about InDesign’s Separations Preview panel in Issue 67 of InDesign Magazine, where she showed how you can use this panel both to view your color separations on screen and also find your total ink limit anywhere on the page. So a 240% TAC means there shouldn’t be any place on your page that has more than 240% total ink-which can happen pretty quickly in dark shadows where there is a lot of black ink.įortunately, it’s easy to test for this in InDesign, and it’s even pretty easy to avoid if you use the correct CMYK conversion methods. (It is also often called “total area coverage” or TAC.) So your printer our output provider (such as Lightning Source) says you have a 240% ink limit, eh? First of all, what does that mean? How can you have more than 100% ink? Well, if you place 100% cyan and 100% yellow in the same place, that green color is called 200% total ink.
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