Printing Color Images

[Heiko Haida]

Hi Ed, 

probably your colors are set to automatically separate to
CMYK in Illustrator: 

If you use a pantone library, all colors here are
by default defined as CMYK-separating colors, although a pantone value
is displayed in the color window... 

=> Set the two colors to
"spotcolor" in the color options (swatch options). A small dot will then
be visible in each color (in the swatches palette for the document).


After this, when producing a PDF, set the output option to "no color
conversion". 

The pantone colors will then have their own plates in the
pdf as spot colors. 

Pls see also: 

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http://karafintechteam.weebly.com/uploads/7/8/5/3/7853240/spot_color_and_adobe_illustrator.pdf


Best regards 

Tino H. Haida, Berlin 

Ed Nodland: 

> This seems
like it should be simple and done routinely by many others. 
> 
> I have
an image of a flammable substance label. It has a pantone red, a pantone
yellow, and black. I want to use the image in a Framemaker document that
will be sent for commercial printing using "Spot Color" not process
printing. How can I accomplish this? 
> 
> The image is an Illustrator
file. I save the file to PDF, load it into Frame 10, save the Frame file
as PDF, open in acrobat pro and use Advanced > Print Production > Output
Preview to see that the image is a mix of CMYK not my spot pantone
colors. 
> 
> I also suspect that the image saved from Illustrator as a
PDF format should display the spot colors but it does not. So the
problem/solution might start there. 
> 
> Ed Nodland
 
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