trapping Question

[Creativepaintballer]

Trapping question. How would you mannually set the trpping in InDesign CS2? i have always allowed InDesign to do all the trapping... one of my printers is asking me to do it. any help would rock. thanks

[zap]

You can do it by the trap palette (under window menu), from this palete select new trap command. In this dialogue box you can select and set what you want or what your printer tell you, and then to assign that settings to the pages you want (You can working with few trapping styles on one project).
I personally heard from professionals that in most cases the default options are good enough, especially for unskilled people.

[G4pj]

This may be easier to understand. Example, Red text on black background. Put a 1 pt stroke on the text, use the attributes palette to set the stroke to overprint. Use the Separations Preview Palette to check the output. Turn off the colors you don't use, then toggle between the two that need to overlap. Some colors show a blend where they overlap when the attributes are set to overprint.

pj

[The Repro Kid]

Hmmm... hate to nay-say, but...

Someone may read this and actually use your suggested 1pt value to trap text.

Unless you're printing poster size text on t-head duplicator, a half point trap may be a little large.

And lets hope they know what to do when the text is red and the background is yellow...

Of course, if the half point traps are submitted, maybe the printer will wise up and and set the traps themselves :D

Oh yeah, if we're talking text, the trapping palette is the place to set this because turning all the text of a text intensive document into outline in order to trap it will result in a RIPing nightmare (and all the text will look like crap-ola).

[The Repro Kid]

Trapping question. How would you mannually set the trpping in InDesign CS2? i have always allowed InDesign to do all the trapping... one of my printers is asking me to do it. any help would rock. thanks

creativepaintballer,
Manual trapping is quite an undertaking and could never be fully explained in one of these, help-me-out, type of forum questions.

It's not that everyone was ignoring you, we were probably all waiting to see what the others would say first.

If you are new to trapping, it will take many, many, many, many, many, many questions to get you on the right track.

:o

[G4pj]

1 point was a suggestion, talk to your printer and find out what tolerance the press is good for.