Takeoff bars in Apogee/Preps

[Prepress101]

Looking for answer on how people out there are adding takeoff bars???
We use Preps templates and bring into Apogee. Is there a way to add takeoff bars in Apogee or Preps template so that spot colors can be re-mapped? (Right now we are adding individually to jobs with custom Preps template) Please advise.

[Hopkins Printing]

Hi Prepress101,

We use take off bars all the time in our Preps templates. We just add a rectangle mark to the template and then define which color it is supposed to be. If it is supposed to be a spot color, I think we define the color/name of the rectangle as "SSICustomColor1", "SSICustomColor2" etc. and map them to the spot colors in the color list in Apogee.

Does this help?

Cheers,
Jon Morgan
Hopkins Printing