Colors Ground Controls

Color Mode Ground Controls

Mode is RGB

Triggers if Used Colors are RGB Colors. Useful for detecting if Used Colors are of type RGB

Mode is CMYK

Triggers if Used Colors are CMYK Colors. Useful for detecting if Used Colors are CMYK

Mode is Lab

Triggers if Used Colors are Lab Colors. Useful for detecting Lab Colors Used in a file

Unsupported PANTONE®

Flag Used PANTONE Colors that are NOT supported in Adobe Creative Cloud 2022 and newer.

*Due to changes from Adobe in Creative Cloud apps 2022 and newer, the full spectrum of PANTONE colors previously supported is now a much smaller subset of the Pantone libraries. This can cause issues with colors not rendering as expected both on screen and in a final output when older files using Pantone colors no longer supported in the newer Adobe apps are edited and or printed from the newer version apps (i.e, a CS6 file that uses Pantone colors no longer supported in CC2023 is opened, edited and output from a CC 2023 app). This Ground Control is designed to notify you in cases such as this so you can make appropriate edits to eliminate color issues before outputting the file.

Mode is HSB

Triggers if Used Colors are HSB Colors. Useful for detecting if any HSB colors are used in a file

Mode is Mixed Ink

Triggers if Used Colors are Mixed Ink Colors. Useful for detecting if a Mixed Ink Color has been used in the file.

Spot Color Ground Controls

More than N Spot Colors Used

Will trigger if more than specified number of Spot Colors are used in the document. This may be useful for a scenario like the following example. Let’s say you as a printer are expecting a CMYK job with 2 additional custom spot colors, so this would be a six-color job. FlightCheck detects there are 4 spot colors used in the document. Catching this early will save a lot of headache before the job goes to press. Normally the extra spot colors would simply disappear from the final print job, which could be disastrous, especially if your clients logo happened to be using one of the unexpected spot colors.

Used Spot Color

Will flag Spot Colors that have been used in the document

Unused Spot Color

Will flag Spot Colors defined in the color palette but not used in the document.

Used In Ground Controls

Used in Gradient

Flag colors if used in a gradient. This may be handy to know as you can see which colors are used gradients. In today’s software, gradients can have many colors used in them.