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Maxie:
Because our designers are not working at the moment I am having to do things I don't normally do.     Today I separated a 4 color spot job, did a base with a .75 choke which I colored a mid grey and put it behind the original graphics.     When I print out the seps the printer does not see the Base color that is behind the rest.
I test with Accurip that is set to a printer but output by printing to PDF and then sending to a Xitron rip.
I know that our designer makes a different page with the base color and seps the base separately to the Xitron.
I'd like the base to be part of the original graphics, I was told that it's better to work this way.
Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?

aauusa:
in the seperation part of the print option screen check use advanced settings  then on the colors which are on top of your base click the overprint

sorry hard to explain.  I print direct through accurip.

aauusa:
to be hinest it is easier to just duplicate the image and change the spot colors to 1 color of your choice so you can have different tints for each color in the design.  just easier to see what I am doing this way.

Lizard:
If your base is on a second page it should still print to your rip as one file. End result is the same as stacking it on one page. When I last used Corel with overprints I had a hard time getting it to work consistently.

Dottonedan:
Slightly off topic, but is good information when speaking of DTS, Templates and sending files from different pages or dartboards or even documents.


The reason we are told that ONE SINGLE PAGE is better to work from, is because RIPs and especially DTS rips that do best making use of template see additional pages as another separate send. This then gets recognized as such...and depending on content, can change the documents position ever so slightly. It’s for this reason, Setting on the art into one page with the underboss built within one file, one page that is most accurate.


People that don’t need to use templates never see this issue.  Everything about the us oof a template is to keep things in one place.  Additional pages or (in Illustrator), additional art boards can be affected. Not all of the time, like I said, (depends on the size of the content that is on the underbase. Like when the color art is large...and only some portions of that is underbased. The two sends read slightly differently.


Even worse in this case is when people save a copy of the file for the BASE and send that to film or DTS separately from the color file.

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