I have created a brochure cover (using Illustrator CS) which uses a 4-color photo in the background behind a large object filled with a gradient. The gradient and parts of a logo must be printed in 2 different Pantone colors, while the rest of the cover will be 4-color. I had prepared everything in eps and imported it into Xpress (6) which seemed to work, but my printer called to say that the Pantone gradients transform into 4-color when exported to flash. He says I must put the image into Photoshop and separate it using multichannels (in this case, 6) and then re-import it into Xpress. I haven't been able to figure out how to do this. Can you please help? Of course, it was due yesterday!
Thanks a million.
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exported to Flash???
Are you sure about what you are posting??
Are you using some kind of transparency in Illustrator?
#2
Something's amiss here... why would anyone export to flash for printing?
If that's the case, find a better printer.
Otherwise a couple things to check:
1) Make sure your spot colors are indeed set as spot color.
2) Make sure the printer isn't telling Quark to print all spots as process.
Weird.
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ANswered over in Illustrator_Win Forum
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I think I haven't been clear -- I live in France and in French they say "flashage" to describe the process of creating films from computer files, so I translated that as "flash" but that must not be the right word in English. I don't know exactly what takes place in the creation of the films, so I don't know if what the printer is telling me is right.
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