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Overprints: The following choices are available.
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Preserve retains overprinting. This is the default for printing separations.
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Simulate imitates the appearance of overprinting for a composite proof. It is useful when
Best Practice:
Prepress / RIP options
you want the effects of overprinting to appear on a proof, providing a more accurate
may include discarding
impression of the final outcome of the printed file (as seen on screen with Overprint
overprint, which
should not be done in
Preview on.) When creating separations, this option is not available.
general as overprint
and transparency
•
Discard specifies that any Overprint Fill or Overprint Stroke settings you have set in the
flattening will be
Attributes palette are not used.
adversely effected.
Flattener presets: Lists the three predefined and locked flattener presets for Low, Medium,
and High Resolution output as well as any custom ones you have saved. For details on how to
set flattener presets see the section "Flattening transparency."
Summar y
When you've finished making your selections, you can view and save a summary of the
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print options you selected. You'll also see warning messages which list any special things
Save the summary file
and Printer style along
you should note regarding spot colors, overprinting, areas that require flattening, Raster
with the print files.
Resolution settings that may be too low, and out-of-gamut colors.
You can refer to it later
when a print job needs
to be rerun or changed
to know exactly what
settings were used.
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