Ink Eater Mark

[tbowat]

In preps how do I get the ink eater variable mark to go behind all other marks (crop marks included)?
I have tried:
1. Mark is not set to "bring to front"
2. Copied and pasted all other marks, so they appear to be to the front of the ink eater mark
3. The marks that I want to be "layered" in front of the ink eater are set to "bring to front"

I am using prinergy 5.1.2.3 and preps 5.3

Thanks

 

[rmac2125]

Preps works in layers, so whatever mark you place first is on the bottom layer and so on.
If you use smart marks then name the mark you want on the bottom with a z...

Rob T
Preps 5.3 and Prinergy

 

[tbowat]

For some reason the same rules are not applying with the ink eater mark?

 

[Al Ferrari]

Are you doing pdf to pdf output? Are you seeing crop marks covered over by the ink eater mark in your actual pdf output from Preps, and not just in the template editor? Is this Problem occurring in Preps stand alone output, or in Preps in a workflow output?

Al

Edit: Sorry, I only just noticed the last line of your post where you inform us about using Prinergy. Can you replicate the problem when Prinergy is not used?

 

[Fii]

Ink Eater, is that the white knockout under marks ?

Preferences > Marks > add White KO under ... mark

maybe this helps.

 

[Al Ferrari]

The name ink eater suggests that it consumes ink, therefore it is most likely a color take off mark such as a rectangle across a region of the press sheet.

Al