Spot Color Black reading CMYK

[Sandee]

Hi There,

I have sent a 2 spot color file to our printer but they tell me they cannot
create the separations because the black text is reading as a four color
process black even though I have selected only 2 spot colors in the
"Commercial Printing" options.
Please help! I am on deadline to get the job printed.

Thank you!

Sandee

 

[seetomtype]

Does you printer even have Publisher? There are a number of work arounds for
this that they should have at their disposal, if they are using even close to
current versions of prepress software. If the file is set up with 2 spot
colors, and the text was created in Publisher, they shouldn't be having this
problem.

Send it to another printer to see if they can do it sans hastles.

 

[Mac Townsend]

"seetomtype" is right in that they should have the tools to do this.

however, be prepared for additional costs.

some thoughts:

1) If you are providing a PDF -- I do not believe that Pub supports
composite spot color files. They WILL be rgb. You should be able to
produce separated files from publisher. But these may not be usable for
them.

The only options are (a) they must use Publisher and work with your
publisher file or (b) you will need to change your file to cmyk and use
K as the black and M as the "spot color" such that the Y and C plates
will be blank.

 

[Helen]

Does you printer even have Publisher? There are a number of work arounds for
this that they should have at their disposal, if they are using even close to
current versions of prepress software. If the file is set up with 2 spot
colors, and the text was created in Publisher, they shouldn't be having this
problem.

Send it to another printer to see if they can do it sans hastles.