QuarkXPress: Color management

Q7.2 - How do you colour manage a CMYK doc to a CMYK laser printer?

greenshires — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:55:28 GMT

Hi we recently bought a Konica Minolta 8650DN printer and we would like to be able to apply a colour workflow to it from Quark 7.

We have managed this from Indesign CS3 - which we also use - and the proofs look great. All we did was set a document profile (Fogra39) and a printer profile (An icc created for the Konica) in the Indesign CS3 print dialog and the proofs are fine.

I really dont understand how Quark does the equivalant. I've tried applying the printer profile as an output CMYK profile and set the placed pictures to be CMYK fogra39 but the laser proofs never seem to change no matter what I do with the profile settings!

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

James

Access to Printer Profiles

Hoppy — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:54:43 GMT

When printing from Photoshop I have access to printer profiles for specific papers. I cannot find any way to access the printer profiles when printing (to an inkjet) from Quark 8. This leads to inconsistant/unexpected results when using Quark. Does anyone know if there is a solution to this problem please.

Thanks,

Hoppy.

"As Is" isn't; PDF/X-3 Broken. How does one make device independent PDFs?

zamzmith — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:48:01 GMT

Below was my original question which I have figured out what my problem was and that was that I was placing .psd files out of habbit working with all Adobe products.

Quark 8; OS X 10.6

I have placed tagged RGB images in a layout. When I export to PDF I user PDF/X-3 but the images are converted to CMYK.

Is this a bug in Quark? Or is it that the preferences and options will let me break PDF/X-3 and I have broken it somewhere in my endless circle of confusion through the mess of color management choices Quark has offered me?

Location of Color Setups

jstotz — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:52:29 GMT

Can anyone tell me where the color setups are stored in Quark 7 and 8. I want to be able to distribute some setups without having to go to each computer and import them. Thanks,

Coloured TIFF Output - Colour Shift

Jayse — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:01:43 GMT

In QuarkXPress 8 on Mac OS X 10.4.11

The only way I can get a coloured TIFF (like a logo for instance) to output is to turn off the colour management... If I leave quark to manage the on-screen view, then the TIFF file will shift in colour when output to PDF. So for example if I have a coloured TIFF (background none for both the tiff file and container) on top of a solid background colour, the background area of the TIFF file will appear slightly darker on output to PDF... So it appears Quark is actually colour managing the TIFF file and coverting it's colour when it presumably flattens the transparency, or whatever it does to b/w tiff files these days.

My output is set to 'As Is' so I don't see why this should be happning, any ideas?

This is only one of the erratic things Quark is doing to TIFF files now

Color Separation PDF All Gray?

MeetBrandon — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:15:04 GMT

I have never had to do color separation in my life (I am a writer by trade, now working on the other side of the equation of news editing); When I created a color-separated PDF in QuarkXPress 8, I get four pages of different shades, but they are gray. This is correct, right?

Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black will not show, but gray is supposed to show, yes?

Thanks for your help!

--Lost in Houston

Quark will not launch.

jgolden — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:24:52 GMT

I have used Quark 7.2 on our G5 Mac running osx 4.9. But today it will not launch the application. A couple of seconds into opening Quark, an error message opens and says Quark can not launch because one of the software components is damage or missing. More info button shows that "Color Manager.qrc" from the "Required Components" folder has a "Load Error". Can Quark suppy us with just that little tiny file to replace or do we have to reinstall the entire application? If anybody knows where and how I can replace this file please Helllp!!!!

Quark 8 won't start on a PC, Color Manager.qrc

cdean — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:50:54 GMT

I have tried removing, reinstalling, upgrading and all the suggestions I have found on the forum here and else where. The fix looks easy if you are on a Mac. Does anyone know how to fix this problem on a PC.

Different text box color when copied and pasted to new document

wehrlipub — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:13:42 GMT

Hello. I am new to this forum and hope this is the correct area for such a question.

I created a new color (CMYK) for a text box in one document. I then needed to copy and paste that box to a different document. When I did so, the "new" text box had a slightly different, more blue color. I checked the CMYK values in Edit/Colors... and they are the same for both the original and copied text boxes. So why would one appear differently than the other on my monitor?

I do not have a color printer to see if they actually print the same. Nonetheless, why wouldn't the colors appear the same in both docs on my monitor?

I'm using QuarkXPress 7.1 on Mac 10.4.11.

Thanks for any help. :-)

Can not view pantone books when adding new colours

jomeir — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:58:25 GMT

Color separation preview

vibrantcolour — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:57:53 GMT

I'm fairly new to Quark, and i have a file that i'm sending off the printers as a colour separation of Cyan.

Is there any way for me to preview it in Cyan, to make sure i've not been a wally and got the colours all wrong?

Christopher

XP 7.5 PDF makes photo's Spot Black instead of Greyscale

Johan van Emmerik — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:02:06 GMT

Hi everyone,I recently updated my Xpress from 7.2 to 7.5.Ever since then, If i make a PDF with the export function, all greyscale photo's print much darker.When I checked the PDF with 'Box of Tricks', I noticed that all black & white photo's are now set as 'spot black', where it used to be 'greyscale'.I can't for the life of me find a way to correct it. I have tried different export settings, but they all do the same thing. Even tried to export as .EPS and thendistill manually, but no luck there either. So I am thinking it's a 'preference' problem or something.Can someone help me resolve this?

colored text imported from Microsoft Word comes in as black

onebug — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:29:05 GMT

We just upgraded from Quark 7 to Quark 8.02, and when we import Microsoft Word files, all of the text that had a color applied in the Word document comes in as black. We use the color to track changes and it is counterproductive to have to open the Word file next to the Quark file to compare them. Is there a setting somewhere that we can change to fix this?

Is a PMS considered a spot?

Bellatrix — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:32:09 GMT

I jumped from Quark 6.5 to 8. In a file I started in 6.5 and am finishing in 8, I'm using PMS 294 + black. The PMS is listed as a spot color, but when I make multi inks of it and black, the multi ink become unchecked and show up in the settings as a CMYK. How do I get the multi inks to work correctly? Thanks! Helen

Importing grayscale photos from Photoshop CS4 to Quark 8

resclass — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:24:56 GMT

Mac user here - after a recent upgrade went from Photoshop CS3 and Quark 7 to Photoshop CS4 and Quark 8, but I still have old projects created with the old programs.

My problem is that in one of my projects created with the old versions, when I insert a newly-created grayscale image, the image is extremely flat. I change the levels in Photoshop, but it appears that Quark discards these changes.

What's more, when I print the page to my color printer, the photo appears as a big black box.

Can anyone help? I have tried changing my color management preferences to "QuarkXPress Emulate Legacy" but that hasn't done the trick.

TIA

Pantone 293C to CMYK problem

ronwel — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:11:21 GMT

OK...I'm a bit confused, (which does not take much).

I had a customer supply us with a job that contained Pantone 293 C, which had to be converted to run on our CMYK press. In the end they thought it looked too purple. After exhastive research I found the following programs convert the colours differently:

Quark 6.52:
100%C
57% M
0%Y
2%K

Quark 7.5:
100%C
68% M
0%Y
2%K

Quark 8.02:
100%C
68% M
0%Y
2%K

InDesign / Illustrator CS3:
100%C
57% M
0%Y
2%K

InDesign / Illustrator CS4:
100%C
57% M
0%Y
2%K

I understand that earlier versions of software will have older versions of the Pantone libraries and their breakdowns....but I would think that InDesign CS4 (which just came out a little while ago), would match Quark 7.5.

Why did Quark change from 6.5 to 7.5 and InDesign stay the same? Is Quark actually up-to-date, and InDesign falling behind?

I do know that all programs are reporting Pantone 293 PC (Colour Bridge) as:

100%C
68% M
0%Y
2%K

Why is Quark grabbing the Colour Bridge breakdown for Pantone 293, but InDesign is using some other breakdown??

Thanks for any info.

Is there any way to just turn off color management in Quark 7?

mikewlisonAGS — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:20:32 GMT

In Quark 6, we would just Disable the CMS extension. Our Rip would handle the color management. Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see anything to do with Color Management in the Extensions Manager.

Replacing Registration colour by Black

christine81 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:32:07 GMT

I have a document that has some text in Registraton when it should be in Black.

How can I get rid of the Registration colour and make it Black in a document that has several pages?

Thank you

Unusual Color Output with black TIFs in Quark 7

ArtistDuey — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:41:06 GMT

Anyone else experience undesired color in bitmap, or grayscale TIFs in Quark 7 that are colored "black?" It seems, for us, to only be a problem on our digital press (Xerox 7000AP) and not our smaller printers. If TIFs are colored black, they print almost inverted in color... we have to save them as CMYK TIFs for them to print correctly. Which leads me to believe it is something to do with the color palette in Quark 7, specifically the image color vs. image background color features.

Pictures. What happend with them?

parstavr — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:15:20 GMT

Well I have a problem with pictures. I work quark, at mac and Pc.

At Mac when doule clik at picture box at quark, opens a window with informations about picture name, were could i find, and you can choose "open" and it open at photoshop where i can change and work on them.

At pc this thing doesn't work. I put a picture and if i want to change at photoshop i must remember the name and to open it must go to photoshop and search it.

If i work on a big work this is very difficult to remember all files names

Sorry for my english

thanks

Grayscale PDF output and black

Henry — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:59:07 GMT

It might be a dumb question, but I've been searching the net for hours and found nothing. Any help would be appreciated!

I am to create a monotint (black only) publication. I'm not sure what kind of PDF the press is expecting, but I've had no problems with grayscale PDFs in the past, so I thought I would stick to this format. I have noticed that the color "black" gets exported in a Composite/Grayscale PDF as a 90% black (gray) only (I'm using QXP 7.2), so my solution was to create a rich black (or use Registration), which gets exported as 100% black.

My main problem is that the present project contains tons of color images (provided in jpeg) that will have to be converted to grayscale. I would be happy with Quark's default strategy to this, but an RGB 0-0-0 black in the images comes out as a 94% black (gray) in the PDF. This happens even if I apply the desaturate adjustment to the images.

Does anyone know an easy workaround, possibly to both problems? Converting all images to monochrome TIFFs and then changing the black color to rich black may be a solution, but I believe there must be a way of exporting layouts to black plates in which ordinary black appears as 100% black.

Many thanks in advance!

Global color change?

pvp — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:02:47 GMT

Hello, I have a Quark document that is made up of many text and pic boxes. These are colored in black and magenta a 2/c job. I want to change the entire document to a 1/c pantone spot color and have no black or magenta used anywhere. If this was 2 pantone colors I would create my new color and then one at a time delete the old colors and replace with the newly created color in "edit colors", no problem. But because I'm dealing with black and magenta I can't delete them in the color editor. Am I missing something? Is there any way to easily change the entire document without going through every text and pic box highlighting and changing colors one at a time? Thanks in advance. PVP

DeviceN or CMYK setting

IsQuarkBack — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:20:24 GMT

I always used DeviceN in QuarkXpress 6 when i used Spotcolors

and CMYK for just Full Colour pages.

Now i use Quark 8 and i am making new settings in combination with my colormanagement settings.

Now my question is can i use the DeviceN setting also for normal CMYK work?

Then i don't have to make the standard setting double.

Are there any problems i can get when i do this?

And is the DeviceN necessary for all Spotcolors?

Light Color Tints Not Displaying

davezilko — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:53:48 GMT

My version of Quark 7 is not displaying tints lighter than 15% accurately. Wither black, cyan or PMS 340, the picture box displays 5%, 8% 11% as pretty much a white box. Only seems to be in Quark, an EPS of the pages displays the correct tints in the RIP.And a PDF of the page looks fine as well.

Thank you for any insight correcting this display.

!!!Quark 7 won't start up ... missing or corrupt Color Manager.qrc?

greenstonegraphix — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:15:04 GMT

Can't imagine why this is happening, but when I try to start up, I get the error message:

QuarkXPress cannot be launched because one or more software components needed by the application are missing or damaged.

Press "More Info..." to get detailed information and suggestions for correcting the problem.

This component is damaged or or corrupt and could not be loaded. (Color Manager.qrc is highlighted).

Do I need to reinstall the whole program, or can I just get this component and go from there?