Spot color problem!

[Pat C.]

I'm creating a business card that will print in two colors. A
black/white clip art logo that was scanned into Publisher 2002
needs to print in red ink. All text will print in black ink. How
can I print out color separations to take to my local print shop?
The whole business card prints out as one color. How can I force
the logo to print out as a different color (red)?

 

[Brian Kvalheim [MSFT MVP]]

Hi Pat C. ([email protected]),
in the newsgroups
you posted:

|| I'm creating a business card that will print in two colors. A
|| black/white clip art logo that was scanned into Publisher 2002
|| needs to print in red ink. All text will print in black ink. How
|| can I print out color separations to take to my local print shop?
|| The whole business card prints out as one color. How can I force
|| the logo to print out as a different color (red)?

Have you changed the color of the logo to something other than black/white
so that Publisher will recognize that it needs to separate that from the
text?
--
Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Publisher MVP
http://www.publishermvps.com

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[Jo Elliott]

There are 2 things you need to do.

First turn the logo to be red ink.
Right click the logo and choose format picture.
Click the recolor button
Choose a color from the drop down box. Click apply. Then
OK twice.

Next you need to set the document for spot colors.
Click Tools, Commercial Printing Tools...Color printing.
Click spot colors then click OK.
Now when you want to print, you have a choice in the
Print....box to click to print a composite or separations.

Print Separataions to a laser printer and you get 2 pages,
both black ink (of course) but one is for the red ink
plate and the other for the black plate.

 

[Mac Townsend]

Another option takes advantage of the fact that the spot color you see
on your screen is completely irrelevant to the job.

Any spot color's real colopr only happens on the printing press. Not on
your screen. The only reason for having "red" as "red" is if you, for
some reason, need to print to your inkjet printer and pretend this is
exactly what it will look like (it it usually won't).

What this means is this.

if you find it easier to make the type red and leave the graphic as
black, then leave it that way BUT INFORM THE PRINTER that the "black"
plate should carry red on press and the "red" plate must carry the black.

you will, of curse, need to make sure you have spot color settings made
for the document.