Printing Color Images

[Ed Nodland]

Thanks,  With the help and clues from several sources I now understand the
color printing issue, including the Save as PDF In Frame and setting spot
colors in Illustrator.

Ed



On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Heiko Haida <info at heiko-haida.de> wrote:

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>
> 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
>
>
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>
> 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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