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Please help clear this up before i make another expensive mistake.
I have corel x3, epson photo 1400,
I want to do Simulated Process Color.
Will I need a rip program for half tones (if not then what) and do i also need a color separation program (ex Spot Process Vuerite) also.
Can one program do both of these things or do I have to have both programs.
I'm sure I will do 4 color process at some point, alot of spot color and simulated process
So what programs do i need?
Do I need half tones for simulated process printing?
Any other information would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in Advance
deenacheri
Guess no one can answer this one?
Okay then can someone explain the difference in half tones and simulated process.
do i need half tones to do simulated process or is that just depending on the art it's self?
thanks again
deenacheri
Simulated process uses spot colors and halftones. You would do better in photoshop for this type of color separation process. Corel photopaint is capable- but you really need photoshop and either way, you would need a rip or ghost script to output your halftones to film. Or you could use a postscript laser printer as your output device.
Color separations are the images that descibe, using black for ink, white for no ink and gray for intermediate ink coverage, where what color should go. 1 separation per ink used. Halftones are the step between your separations and the films, which cannot use grays. That's because the ink either does, or does not go on the shirt at a particular spot. So, it transforms grays into black dots, dark grays, big dits, light frays, small dots.
Corel PHOTOPaint can select colors (Color Mask) and output halftones (Image>Mode>Black and white). That's not the problem. Selecting colors, however, is never perfect. There are programs in the world that do both, great color separation and halftoning.
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Simulated process uses spot colors and halftones. You would do better in photoshop for this type of color separation process. Corel photopaint is capable- but you really need photoshop and either way, you would need a rip or ghost script to output your halftones to film. Or you could use a postscript laser printer as your output device.
Am I right to say that CMYK blends 4 colors one on top of the other so all the colors you see are a mixture of Cyan, Yellow, Magenta, and Black. Simulated process uses spot or solid colors whenever possible to achieve a more solid color. Usually, the colors you see on a simulated process print is the actual color of the ink (and not a mix).
oh,just get fastfilms ,run simulated process button and trust me you'll get the color seps.
Thats what i do and it works,needs some tweaking here and there,but it works.Don't let anybody tell u different
Half tones/Simulated Process Color 
