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Preparing a file using spot colors Creating Files for the SprinterB Printer
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Once you choose one of the separations, all four separations will be
automatically imported.
You can also see a preview of each picture by clicking Preview.
16. Click Import.
Preparing a file using spot colors
All popular graphic software programs know how to handle multi-color
files – regular CMYK process colors and/or Pantone/Spot colors. If you did
not specify that the Spot color is to be a process one, the entire list of
colors you prepared and used, will appear in the printing menu.
These programs know how to create files as 'Separations' or as 'Composite'.
While preparing a file using spot colors, you must take into account the
following three points regarding the SprinterB printer, the SprinterB
software and in our RIP software (PhotoPrint Server/PPS):
• The PPS cannot accept Postscript (PS) files that are created as
'Separations'. It can only accept files that were created as
'Composite'.
• The PPS and the SprinterB can only handle CMY & CMYK
files. The SprinterB imports images for printing after the RIP
process, only if there are four separations, when the names
are: xxx_C.tiff, xxx_M.tiff, xxx_Y.tiff, xxx_K.tiff , even if there
is no data in one of the separations. In addition, the PPS will
also create four separations with the above names – even if
you chose to RIP only CMY.
•
The SprinterB Printer can only print four colors in one pass.
The above issues can be addressed as follows:
The simplest way is to make use of the process colors only. However, you
must ensure that you use 'pure' colors and not to compose a color from
two or more different colors. We recommend that this 'pure' color should
be 100%. Each spot color will represent a process color that you choose to
replace, and the specific spot color must be put in the same print station
as the process color you replaced.
For example, if you want the Cyan process to represent a gold spot, the
Magenta process to represent an orange spot, the Yellow process to
represent a green spot and the Black process to represent a white spot, the
ribbons should be installed on the printer in that order. Instead of CMYK
we now have Gold, Orange, Green and White.
The only problem with the above procedure is the fact that the image on
the screen will appear different than the actual image you are printing,
since you are not using CMYK. Therefore, you should proceed in one of the
following two ways:
• In the graphic software, use Pantone/Spot colors (only four
for a 4-station printer), and just before closing the file, change
the selected colors to regular process colors as described
above.
• In the color palette, change the color name used for the four
process colors – please note that in most graphic software,
the Black is only used for Black color – it cannot be used as a
different color.