 | | From: | raindogs_1 at yahoo.com | | Subject: | trouble with separations from Quark to PDF | | Date: | 14 Jan 2005 17:51:35 -0800 |
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 | I have a Quark 6 document set up as a 2 color job (black + 1 spot). The
separations read fine when I look at the print dialog in Quark, but the
printer is having trouble with the PDF files I sent (they said
something is still coming in as CMYK). They asked for composite, so I
created the PDF by selecting "composite" + "as is" in the Quark export
PDF dialog. Is this the way to go here or am I missing something?
Thanks,
Alex
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| | From: | Mike Powell | | Subject: | Re: trouble with separations from Quark to PDF | | Date: | 15 Jan 2005 08:48:34 GMT |
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| raindogs_1@yahoo.com wrote in news:1105753895.663536.175040
@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:
> I have a Quark 6 document set up as a 2 color job (black + 1 spot). The
> separations read fine when I look at the print dialog in Quark, but the
> printer is having trouble with the PDF files I sent (they said
> something is still coming in as CMYK). They asked for composite, so I
> created the PDF by selecting "composite" + "as is" in the Quark export
> PDF dialog. Is this the way to go here or am I missing something?
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
You need to use DeviceN colour space for output if the file contains
colourised tiffs or multitones and make sure PDF is > 1.4
Regards
Mike
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| | From: | Aandi Inston | | Subject: | Re: trouble with separations from Quark to PDF | | Date: | Sat, 15 Jan 2005 08:43:19 GMT |
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| raindogs_1@yahoo.com wrote:
>I have a Quark 6 document set up as a 2 color job (black + 1 spot). The
>separations read fine when I look at the print dialog in Quark, but the
>printer is having trouble with the PDF files I sent (they said
>something is still coming in as CMYK). They asked for composite, so I
>created the PDF by selecting "composite" + "as is" in the Quark export
>PDF dialog.
What did you do the first time? Did you send separations? Was that
what they asked for? Did you use an DCS/DCS2 graphics?
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| | From: | Lee Blevins | | Subject: | Re: trouble with separations from Quark to PDF | | Date: | Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:02:57 -0500 |
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> I have a Quark 6 document set up as a 2 color job (black + 1 spot). The
> separations read fine when I look at the print dialog in Quark, but the
> printer is having trouble with the PDF files I sent (they said
> something is still coming in as CMYK). They asked for composite, so I
> created the PDF by selecting "composite" + "as is" in the Quark export
> PDF dialog. Is this the way to go here or am I missing something?
> Thanks,
> Alex
This depends on what the content of your page is.
Quark does not correctly color all things in composite that it does in
separations.
More than likely you're coloring a grayscale tiff a spot color and it's
coming out CMYK at the printer.
A cheap way out of this is to color your job as two process colors and
not as K+Spot.
Make it Black and Cyan and your problem will go away.
Oh, make sure you tell the SFUP not to put Cyan ink in the press just
because you chose the Cyan plate for output.
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| | From: | Mike Powell | | Subject: | Re: trouble with separations from Quark to PDF | | Date: | 17 Jan 2005 10:30:53 GMT |
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| leeb@digitalgraphics.net (Lee Blevins) wrote in
news:1gqhivd.15l2t3gwfxf5sN%leeb@digitalgraphics.net:
> wrote:
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>> I have a Quark 6 document set up as a 2 color job (black + 1 spot).
The
>> separations read fine when I look at the print dialog in Quark, but
the
>> printer is having trouble with the PDF files I sent (they said
>> something is still coming in as CMYK). They asked for composite, so I
>> created the PDF by selecting "composite" + "as is" in the Quark
export
>> PDF dialog. Is this the way to go here or am I missing something?
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>
> This depends on what the content of your page is.
>
> Quark does not correctly color all things in composite that it does in
> separations.
>
> More than likely you're coloring a grayscale tiff a spot color and it's
> coming out CMYK at the printer.
>
> A cheap way out of this is to color your job as two process colors and
> not as K+Spot.
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> Make it Black and Cyan and your problem will go away.
>
> Oh, make sure you tell the SFUP not to put Cyan ink in the press just
> because you chose the Cyan plate for output.
>
Quark 6.x does support DeviceN, so colorized Tiffs are no longer the
problem they used to be.
Regards
Mike
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