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Dottonedan:
I just had this exact same experience with another customer of mine who got seps from someone and they sent them to their outside source, who only has Corel, and always prints DPF’s.  Sounds oddly familiar, but your Co is not the same name.


The art was great!  A Front and a Back. Strangely, the back art...was showing as being done in same file as the front and I would ope as SHOW ALL but only one side would open.


In those, were a FUBAR group of sep files..
I as a favor, re-opened the files in Illy, and found that the art was done in raster, even though what my customer sent me...were .ai files. Apparently, the artist was not being very helpful and probably because he/she didn’t have experienced in any other option. My sep customer said his printer source  required PDF and tried pdf with these files with no luck.  I think tried to SAVE AS PDF on my end and gave them back to my customer...and was then told “ It worked” or last I heard.




The trick, is that the printer you are using with the Corel has to be savvy enough with their Corel to receive outside files and print to film. It’s done every day, but not everyone knows all of the various way there are to imprint and print files. Additionally, I am 100% POSITIVE that their CTS, no matter wax or wet ink, or even Laser can take the other file types. Perhaps they just don’t know how.


So,   I do Photoshop seps for Corel users a lot. Like 10% of all of my customers are on Corel. That’s a lot.


I will usually make it as simple as I can and SPLIT the seps up. Another method is to (from Photoshop, seps, save the file as a DCS2, single file with color preview).  Little do they know, they can also just import the psd file and print the greyscale seps with the custom colors in Corel also.


The problem I had, with my customers file the separator sent him...was that this person who did the seps didn’t do them (as I would have) and for me to do the SPLIT method for him, I would have to reengineer the files (FRONT and BACK), 3 files for each opening each, removing all of the extra junk that doesn’t pertain..and bring each one back into Photoshop.


The artist made a BASE file..but it had other colors in there with it.  Then they made a “Colors” file and they had the BASE and TOP white with it. Then there was a TOP WHiTE file...and it had the colors with it.  So it’s no wonder why they ran into issues with printing from the PDF. Their Rip was probably seeing all of these other separations in with each file it was just too confusing.


Are you my sep customers printer source?

tbarnes:
Dan,

No I am not your customers printer (though I could be tell them to hit me up lol). My shop utilizes adobe software, we just started working with a new shop and sending them work and they only use Corel.

I tried resaving the files as PDF's but they still had no luck. Sounds like it worked for you, not sure what they are doing wrong exactly, was hoping somebody had an easy work around here.

The shop we sent it to recreated the art as vector art and wants us to send everything as vector, but a lot of our art is supplied and is made as raster to begin with. Hoping if we send them enough work it will justify them upgrading to the adobe products.

Dottonedan:
Sounds like a need for a good instructional tutorial for people to send others when they run into this stuff. I’ll put one together. Another on my list.

inkman996:
Strictly Corel here for two decades. Any seps I recieve from an adobe user I ask for in .tiffs. Easy as that.

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