I have a 4 color piece that I have changed all the colors to pantone's. I can print plates 2-4 fine - however the 1st plate (which shows correctly on my screen), which is a pantone black, will not print no matter what I do....I am only getting about 2 percent of the artwork on plate 1 to print....I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, I've tried to resize the piece thinking that it was related to paper size but that doesn't fix the problem. Anyone have any ideas?? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Last edited by ze6492; June 23rd, 2008 at 06:55 PM.
Reason: add: using corel x3
Clarify please - 2% meaning very light halftone screen or large sections of the solid art is missing?
Try copying the art to new file (so nothing happens to original) then get rid of the other colors or objects in the file. Leaving only the black areas.
Can you then see & print the Black as it should be. Do you see other colors that were hiding? Then delete them until only black is left to print.
I had the same problem with this 3 color sep. a couple of days ago, for some reason the text had to be welded and make sure every element in the desiegn is in pantone.
I am also using coreldraw x3 and having the same issue, using an epson r1800 and accurip. When I print separations they are incomplete, certain layers in the design dont print or get cut off. Seps print with areas missing, you can see whats behind the object into areas that are over printed and not suposed to be showing. I had this issue before in the past with fastrip and the same printer. I bumped up the memory and the time out time, worked perfect after that using fastrip back then.
Converting all pantone colors to black and deleting unused colors is way too time consuming and impactical for a 7 or 8 color design. Any suggestions?
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