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I'm doing work for a band and need help separating the artwork. I don't think its really complicated, just a little out of my knowledge level. Could anyone help? I could throw you a few bucks! I'm attaching a low res JPG, but also have an AI file
Actually that's quite challenging, I'd probably do it with index seps, you could also separate the two spots with four colour angles and produce rosettes. PM me if artz can't do it.
got a question... Im still not the best separator so im wondering how many colors you would use for the index separation? I was thinking white underbase, blue halftones, yellow halftones (and possibly a cream color so the blue+yellow halftones dont appear green?)
can you explain a bit more using 4 color angles? how does that work? is it so you dont get any moire?
Well blue going into yellow is bound to look greenish?
The no. of screens is reflected in the cost, so the more the merrier, but beware the cost.
Index seps is the same as printing large pixels, each square is assigned a colour, either yellow or blue (maybe an intermediate) If you put the films together they will be completely black.
You need good registration on your imagesetter and your press.
Print wet-on-wet for some merging of colours.
The other way to do it is to use halftones of spot colours and assign the screen angles from the cyan and magenta plates of a four colour set. That gives you white with halftones and avoids moiré.
Both can look good but will be 'different'.
I need help separating a gradient! 
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