The four process colors are always there, at the top, followed by spot colors. That is, if you print color separations, how many plates will probably come out. This shows you all the different inks in your document - not the swatches, or colors, but specifically inks. The first thing you should do when you open the Ink Manager is to scroll through the list of inks at the top. It’s very rare you’d need to worry about the trapping stuff, but it’s very common that you need to think about something else here: converting spots to process colors.

Ink Manager lets you do all kinds of things, including aliasing one spot color to another and managing trapping sequence. It doesn’t matter where you choose it from they all go to the same place. You can tell how important the Ink Manager is by the fact that you can open it from five different places: the Swatches panel menu, the Separations Preview panel menu, the Export PDF dialog box, the Export EPS dialog box, and the Print dialog box. And even more important: Open the Ink Manager each and every time you export a PDF or send a file to a print provider!.Please: do yourself and your printer and everyone around you a favor and learn two things:

Talk to any printer and they’ll tell you: Designers are forever sending them PDF and InDesign files with spot colors when they really want process colors.

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