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Prinergy Connect 2.0 | |
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Symptoms |
You have a separated file of which one of the separations is the dieline. Using the SepsToComp Acrobat plugin, the dieline is merged to one of the process plates (instead of being merged individually). |
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Cause |
Currently, if you've set an ink to have exactly the same color values as another (particularly 100% C, M, Y, or K) S2C will combine them onto the first inklayer with those values. For example, if your dieline is 100% magenta, it will be composed onto the magenta layer, leaving the dieline plate blank. We are working on uniquely identifying the different plates so this won't happen anymore. For now, set your dieline plate to be 99% M, or 100% M + 1% K, or some other color value that isn't EXACTLY the same as the other. |
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Solution |
To get Seps2Comp to correctly merge dielines and varnish plates to a composite file, you must ensure that the dieline or varnish plates are not defined as being 100% of any of the process colors. That is, if the dieline spot color was defined in Illustrator as 100% magenta, then either edit the color definition in Illustrator to be 99% magenta or edit the ink set in Seps2Comp so that the dieline is defined as 99% magenta. It will still print as a solid when output as a spot color. Permanent fix: |
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Keywords |
acrobat, spot color |
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Technical contact(s) |
James Bredenhof |
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