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Title: COREL DRAW - CREATING AND PRINTING HALFTONE SPOT COLORS
Post by: Dottonedan on June 01, 2017, 02:54:42 PM

I provided a customer a pdf file created in Illy, with spot colors and spot halftones.


He showed me that the solid spot colors showed up, but the halftone areas did not. I think he was printing the vector seps out of Quickseps or some other sep program. So not sure how that worked out. I don't think he even needed to print to film by going thu one of those sep programs.


I had several low percentages of colors overtop one another that were to blend to create a grey.  They didn't come out on his seps so I wanted to see if there is some method you must do first to assure the seps to print out with halftone dots.
I send him another pdf file and assigned those halftone areas to multiply but no go.


Who's our resident halftone Corel user?

Title: Re: COREL DRAW - CREATING AND PRINTING HALFTONE SPOT COLORS
Post by: Frog on June 01, 2017, 03:00:22 PM

I don't know if Quickseps also is a RIP. That may be why he used it.
Otherwise, I'd first check to see how they output (or at least display in the print window directly from CorelDRAW (though the lip will be far too high to use)

Title: Re: COREL DRAW - CREATING AND PRINTING HALFTONE SPOT COLORS
Post by: Dottonedan on June 01, 2017, 03:32:39 PM

I don't know about the preview, but he could see the grey in the corel file when opened. Just didn't come out in the seps or in the separation program windows preview.   I think he is miss using the sep program thinking that is what he needs to run everything thru.

Title: Re: COREL DRAW - CREATING AND PRINTING HALFTONE SPOT COLORS
Post by: Squeegie on June 01, 2017, 03:41:46 PM

Dan, I would be glad to look at the file on my system and see where the issue may be.

Title: Re: COREL DRAW - CREATING AND PRINTING HALFTONE SPOT COLORS
Post by: Sbrem on June 01, 2017, 05:54:01 PM

I don't use CD, but I always print paper seps out of a laser printer before I commit to film...

Steve

Title: Re: COREL DRAW - CREATING AND PRINTING HALFTONE SPOT COLORS
Post by: cyw on June 01, 2017, 06:14:48 PM

Corel doesn't hold that print info......you need to send him a .ps or .prn file. He can print (see) the halftones through Ghostscript or merely by selecting the generic independent ps driver that Corel provides in their print options.
It's how I always used to send my halftone seps to screeners.......works like a charm. No issues that I can remember. 

Title: Re: COREL DRAW - CREATING AND PRINTING HALFTONE SPOT COLORS
Post by: cbjamel on June 01, 2017, 09:33:48 PM

what is he printing it out with printer and rip if any. also which cd version. you can send to me i have x7.

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