- #BASIC SPOT COLOR SEPARATION INSIDE ILLUSTRATOR FULL#
- #BASIC SPOT COLOR SEPARATION INSIDE ILLUSTRATOR REGISTRATION#
Check out Figure 15-4 for a composite image and the four separations used to create it. If you have a CMYK document in Illustrator, you’re working in the environment that’s perfect for full-color printing. Traditionally, full-color artwork is printed using four different inks (and therefore four plates): cyan, magenta, yellow, and black (CYMK). Illustrator generates film, paper, or even the individual plates themselves - one for each color of ink. Because printing in color requires different inks, which are applied to paper sequentially on a printing press, each ink gets its own printing plate.
#BASIC SPOT COLOR SEPARATION INSIDE ILLUSTRATOR REGISTRATION#
Layouts are created with dimensions and graphics safe area guides as a spot Die Color and registration marks that will print in all separations. The concept behind printing separations from Illustrator is straightforward. QuickCarton is designed to allow the Illustrator user to quickly and easily create basic, corrugated carton layouts for various panel arrangements and material thicknesses. In fact, many service bureaus require that you provide laser print separations when you place a print order so they know the file is properly prepared. The people there can help you examine your separations. Perhaps the best place to find out more about separations is your service bureau. My advice: Print separations and leave it at that. The book would be painfully long and boring, however, and one I don’t want to write. I could fill a book with information about looking at separations to find out information about potential problems in your artwork.
#BASIC SPOT COLOR SEPARATION INSIDE ILLUSTRATOR FULL#
(Ack! No! Don’t print that ink drawing in Registration! You’ll only get a page full of gunk.) Registration is totally unsuitable for artwork.
Registration and Black look identical on-screen, but Registration is a special color that’s used exclusively by printers (for those little marks that help center the content on the page). (Read more on spot colors later in this section.) On closer examination of the pages, you see that the black type you used exists on all pages, and you know that the type was specified as Registration, not as Black. You know immediately that some of the colors you used were created as cyan, magenta, yellow, black (CMYK) process colors, not as spot colors. After printing separations, you get pages for cyan, magenta, yellow, and Pantone 185, rather than just pages for black and Pantone 185. For example, suppose you plan to print a job using black ink and the spot color Pantone 185.
If you do send your work to a service bureau to be made into film or plates, printing separations can save you a lot of time. Printing separations is a good way to double-check your work before you send it to a service bureau to be made into film or plates. Separations print a separate page for each color of ink that you use in a document.
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