White Ink And Varnish Print Jobs; How To Select A Printer Flood Fill - Oce Arizona 400 Series GT User Manual

White Ink and Varnish Print Jobs

How to Select a Printer Flood Fill

Introduction
When working with white ink or varnish you can choose the workflow that best fits your
needs. There are three main approaches to white ink/varnish workflow with your printer:
• Printer Flood Fill Mode - uses the Printer Flood Fill Configuration.
• ONYX Spot Layer Tool - generate the white spot data in ProductionHouse.
• Spot Data (pre-defined) - spot data is created in image editing application such as
Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, or PhotoShop.
This section documents the Printer Flood Fill approach. The next two sections document
the other two Spot approaches.
Note:
With the Printer Flood Fill approach, white ink is set up as a layer that is embedded in
the print job while varnish is simply selected and printed as a top coat on the printed
image.
Purpose
The Printer Flood Fill mode allows you to print an image with a varnish fill top coat or
a white flood fill as an underlay or an overlay. The edges of the image bounding box (the
outer perimeter of the image) will determine the extent of the flood fill area.
When to do
This approach is used when an image is rectangular in shape and requires a white or varnish
flood fill. The printer itself provides the flood fill rather than the ONYX Spot Layer Tool
or an image editing application, so no additional data preparation is required.
Note:
If jobs are nested in the ONYX software, white or varnish is printed between jobs when
you use this technique because the outer extent of the entire nested job is used to define
the flood area.
Chapter 9 - How to Work With White Ink and Varnish
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