Ink Pickup Bar with Measure Tool

This mark only exists as a job-internal mark.

The size of the mark is dynamic when you create an ink pickup bar in the Ink Pickup Bar Editor that you display with "File > Create Resource > New Mark > Ink Pickup Bar...". In other words, the mark adapts itself to the context (e.g. subject) in which it is set.

By contrast, if you create an ink pickup bar using the measure tool, you define the size of the mark at the start. The size stays the same when creating the mark, i.e. the mark content must be fitted to the mark size.

To create an ink pickup bar with the measure tool, proceed as follows:

1.Go to the "Press Sheet" tab in the graphic window.

2.Using the measure tool, draw a rectangle whose size and position are that of the ink pickup bar you want. (To do this, press the command and Shift keys and create the rectangle holding down the left mouse button. Release the mouse button first).

3.When the rectangle is created, an additional row appears at the bottom of the graphic window and includes the following button:

Click this button.

The Ink Pickup Bar Editor opens, displaying the rectangle you created.

4.Create your ink pickup bar and click "Save".

Note: You can choose to define a strip-based or an ink zone-related ink pickup where the transparent areas of the press sheet are determined automatically and the ink pickup ele­ments are placed into the transparent areas of the press sheet (facilitates the ink pickup, in particular for Packaging printing with spot colors).

You can find a description on how to use the Ink Pickup Bar Editor in the Ink Pickup Bar Editor .

The editor started through the measure tool differs from the normal Ink Pickup Bar Editor as follows:

The "Width" and "Height" boxes are dimmed as the size of the mark cannot be changed. They only show the size of the mark. The height of each color bar is matched automatically if you add or remove additional colors in the "Choose Color Layer" list.