Printing Question

[Jay]

Okay this may sound like a dumb question...  If I was going to print 2 colors, say blue and red, but along with the full blue or red, I wanted to use a tint of the color...  Lets say 50% of my original blue...  Does that mean it is no longer a 2 color job?  Or is it okay to use tints?  Does this make sense?

Thanks!!!  A reply asap would be awesome  
Jay

[CyberPet]

Still 2 colors.  

Lets say you use Black & Cyan, then wants a tint of the Cyan you still just print in 2 colors... or let say you MIX black and cyan, like 50% Cyan and 10% Black to get a darker, more dodgy, blue it's still 2 colors (i.e. Black & Cyan).

Not many remember you can mix black with a color (cyan or magenta) to get more tones of colors to play with.

[Jay]

Thanks petra  

Another question...  When saving a graphic as an EPS in Illustrator, what is best for print:  Saving as a Macintosh 8 bit or as a Tiff 8 bit color file?

Thanks  

Jay

[Scott]

Oh the mac it really doesn't matter what the preview is... for the PC the 8bit Tiff is better.
 
 [ 04-28-2003, 10:59 PM: Message edited by: Scott ]

[tacit]

To elaborate a bit:

The preview is not the graphic. When you choose 8 bit Mac or 8 bit TIFF, you are choosing the format of a crude, low-res thumbnail that is only there for your convenience when you place the image into a page layout program like QuarkXPress. You can choose no preview at all, and you'll just get a gray box when you place it in a page layout program--but it will still print as it should to a PostScript printer.

The TIFF preview can not contain transparency. That means in some programs it will seem to have a white box around it on your computer screen, though the white box will notprint.

The Mac preivew can't be used on a PC. If you put the image on a PC, the preview will disappear.