Fine Text on Dark Background

[Mark Casey]

Hi Forum
Hope you can guide me
We have PDFs with heavy Ink coverage 280% - 320%, plus it prints on a 120gsm Paper
On top of that we some small text around 9pt but the Font is fine to start with
Basically I'm looking for PreFlighting that can check for Fine text on top of Heavy Ink?
Hope you clever people can help
Thanks
Mark

[Bettylores]

Hi Forum
Hope you can guide me
We have PDFs with heavy Ink coverage 280% - 320%, plus it prints on a 120gsm Paper
On top of that we some small text around 9pt but the Font is fine to start with
Basically I'm looking for PreFlighting that can check for Fine text on top of Heavy Ink?
Hope you clever people can help
Thanks
Mark

You’ll probably need a custom Preflight profile for that, because most default checks only flag total ink coverage or minimum text size separately. The risky combination is small knockout text sitting on very heavy TAC backgrounds, especially on coated stock with fine fonts.