[fryant21]

Hi everyone,

I have been following the forums for a while and I have been very impressed with the your expertise. I am using Photoshop, Illustrator and Accurip and I am having some issues with printing a design I need to finish up. I converted the image to greyscale in photoshop and placed into Illustrator and then I have a black spot color in Illustrator. Everything I have read says Accurip should just "handle the halftone" but I am missing a step somewhere I just want this to be halftones of the pantone black that I am already using in the design so that I print one film. I have attached the image of the design and would be greatful for any help!

Thanks in advance

 

[macmiller]

I use Corel draw, so I had to go look in my Illustrator to see what they call it...


when you are in the print menu, click output. Default should "mode" be composite. Which for a one color design, this should be what you want to use. If you had spot colors in the design, you would use the separations mode and it will print each spot color on a separate film.

hope that helps!

 

[fryant21]

Mac,
The writing is in spot color. Should I just change it to a non spot color black and print the composite? And my other question that follows that is what if they want to print the word and logos in a different spot color? How would I do that?

Thanks so much for your help!

 

[macmiller]

no problem!

composite "should" print all black regardless of if it's spot black, cmyk black, rgb black, etc. If you have a spot color in the design, it will show up in the output tab in the print menu. There will be your cmyk colors, plus your spots. The little printer icon should be "lit" for the colors you want to print, grey out the ones you don't want to print. I'm not sure if when in Illustrator, Accurip will override the LPI and angle shown in the print dialogue. I know in Corel, Accurip overrides it, so I'd bet it does.

 

[fryant21]

Mac, last one hopefully. I am familiar with the output tab on Accurip as I use it daily for my spot color separations. But take my example from my first post and I change the words to a spot red color but still want to print the halftone of the photograph(black on a white shirt)What colors do I pick?
Thanks again!