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- zenfulbeauty
I am trying to get some menus printed (that someone else created) and the printer called to tell me that my 2 color print job was showing as more than 2 colors.
I looked at the color seperations in Quark and everything appeared fine, colorwise. But the printer is printing from the pdf, so I checked seperations in acrobat and apparantely it is losing something there. The only image on the file is showing all cmyk colors, even though it was created in photoshop as a duotone of the pantone swatch needed for the 2 color job.
Ugghh...am I even making sense? And if anyone understands what the heck I am talking about...could you offer me some suggestions to regain the color info or correct this somehow?
Thanks a bunch!
- BonSeff0
send the printer the quark file?
- zenfulbeauty0
Ha! Thats another problem! Our purchasing department selected a printer who doesn't use Quark...the use Corel (gasp)! So, the Quark files are useless to them and they are offering me no suggestions.
I tried bringing the image in as a grayscale tiff and applying the pantone color in Quark, but that didn't work either.
I am sooo frustrated!
- k770
can you switch printers? or maybe do a file conversion?
whatever happens, blame somebody else if things don't come out awesome.
- zenfulbeauty0
Funny you should say that...I just called our Purchasing Dep to ask about switching. They are worried that the paper has already been purchased by this printer.
What kind of print shop uses just Corel these days anyway? lol.
- rasko40
the pdf converted the image to CMYK probably.
supply the quark file with DCS for the duotone
- zenfulbeauty0
DCS?
- rasko40
DCS files are used for duotones, it creates several files, one for each spot... supply them all the printer will know what to do.
- k770
maybe you can get another print shop just to run the seperations and then take them to the printer who has already purchased paper?
- zenfulbeauty0
Where do you do this? In photoshop where the duotone was created or in quark?
- zenfulbeauty0
interesting idea k77 ;)
- rasko40
when you save the image from PS
- raelou0
corel = armpit of design programs
- raelou0
corel = armpit of design programs
- zenfulbeauty0
OK rasko..I'm going to see if I can figure that one out now.
Thanks!
- k770
good luck!
- zenfulbeauty0
nope...didn't see an option like that.
- zenfulbeauty0
Figured out how to save DCS (had to make it multichannel instead of duotone first).
But when I exported as pdf, I opened it in acrobat and discovered the image was missing. grrr.
This is just not my day!
- k770
take a deep breath.
- zenfulbeauty0
yeah. I think I am giving up on this one...for now at least. Thanks anyway guys!
- johndiggity0
pdf your seps from quark. click the separations box in the print dialogue and print to file. send those to the printer as plate 1 and plate 2.