I'm attempting to place an eps color bar image as a smart mark (not a dup mark) in the horizontal gutters at the head of an 8-up magazine imposition.
The issue I am stuck on is that the color bar is covering the fold marks. The press is needing these marks to be visible. The workaround is to make a specific color bar graphic for every page width / web width that has the fold marks placed on it with a white square behind it (breaking the color bar scheme). If this is the case I may end up with as many as 20 different color bar graphics that will be placed as smart marks.
Any of you Preps gurus have any suggestions for how to avoid making all of these different color bars? I'd like to just have one for each web width which would cut them down to 8 color bars.
The issue I am stuck on is that the color bar is covering the fold marks. The press is needing these marks to be visible. The workaround is to make a specific color bar graphic for every page width / web width that has the fold marks placed on it with a white square behind it (breaking the color bar scheme). If this is the case I may end up with as many as 20 different color bar graphics that will be placed as smart marks.
Any of you Preps gurus have any suggestions for how to avoid making all of these different color bars? I'd like to just have one for each web width which would cut them down to 8 color bars.