Comments on: Thou Shalt Not Use Registration

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:45:48 +0000

I just surfed in from the ‘net. The ink “color” Registration caught my eye. I remembered my years as a computer editor in Yearbook class in the late ’90′s – that would have fallen under my juridiction. I KNOW we sent lots of pages to print with Black/Registraion used interchageably. It depended on what mood we were in, I guess. I never knew that! Some poor editor at Josten’s had to go through all these high school kids’ work and fix these errors! No wonder the books were so expensive, lol. Thanks for the info!

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:22:31 +0000

Hi,

Until recently I worked at a print shop where we manually impo’ed all of our files in InDesign. I often had to set up business cards 12 up on an 8.5×11 page. This meant that I had to add my own cropmarks and registration marks. Of course, I used the color “Registration” for this. So I am glad that this color is a default in the swatches pallette.

It is crazy that someone would use Registration in place of black! I agree that the designer should be educated on what the difference is between registration, 100% K, and a rich black. If not, I guess prepress operators have some job security.

In Indesign CS3, there is an icon on the Registration swatch that indicates it will be printed on all plates. Also, the Overprint preview is a great way to see how the colors will separate. But alas, so many “designers” have no education in printing production methods.

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Best of InDesign March 2009 — Gurus Unleashed — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:26:58 +0000

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Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:10:03 +0000

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