Color Separations in Illustrator CS
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- johndiggity0
the printer will seperate the actual file for plate output, you just need to give them separation printouts, along with a full color printout, and the file, artwork and fonts.
go under "File > Print". from the "Printer Description" pulldown, select "Adobe Postscript® File". the "PPD" will automatically change, probably to a Brother DCP 8020. if you have distiller installed as a PPD, select that instead. it doesn't matter what you choose, or don't choose here.
click on "Output" in the box on the left. under the "Mode" pulldown, select "Separations (Host-Based)". You now have the option of converting spot colors to process. If it's a 4 color CMYK job, don't touch anything.
you are done. hit "Save" and name the file. once it writes the postscriptfile, drop it on distiller (if you already didn't send it there under the PPD setup) and PDF it. print out a copy and save the PDF on the disk you will give to the printer with all the other stuff i already mentioned.