[dpc036]

does anyone do this?

[adpitch]

What do you mean? Or why do you proceed so?

[dpc036]

in quark/indesign you can give an image box a background colour, so behind an image.

so at print the printer prints cyan then the image or something!

so i was told anyway, wondered if this was bollocks or a done thing.

[Maerk]

There's lots of ways to "cyan an image" really, can either overprint it which is what I think you're talking about - and I can't remember the technical bit of how it's set up to be printed like that without asking a printer actually, or have a cyan block and set the image over it to luminosity or darken/multiply for a similar effect.

[adpitch]

one usage of cyan is for large areas of black on CMYK prints. To enhance the black, 3-40% of cyan is overprinted (I'm reffering to 100%K- not the Photoshop black).

[dpc036]

so just putting a cyan background in the image box in quark doesnt do anything then?

[adpitch]

it's true that is recommended to have a colored box instead of a non-filled one.

[adpitch]

but just coloring the quark box doesn't do anything. I eventually helps you to bettersee any gap.

[Maerk]

Originally Posted by dpc036

so just putting a cyan background in the image box in quark doesnt do anything then?

Bollocks to quark :P I honestly don't know, I'd ask your printer directly, there might be something that can be printed separately like how a spot UV is applied etc.