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Error

Symptoms

When an EPS containing spot colors is placed in QuarkXPress and poured thin and separated, content for spot colors that the OPI engine is told to "preserve as spot" are lost.

Cause

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Pantone spot colors used when creating an EPS graphic may have a single character library qualifier (C="Coated", U="Uncoated", etc.) specified in at the end of the color name

(Eg. "PANTONE 120 CVC" instead of "PANTONE 120 CV").

According to Pantone, when such an EPS graphic is placed in Quark, Quark truncates the name of Pantone colors (by one character) when it adds the color name to its color list for the document so that spot colors match the unqualified Pantone color name regardless of whether they came from the Coated, Uncoated, or Process swatch libraries.

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When a graphic (EPS) containing Pantone spot colors is placed in Quark, the color name that Quark adds to its color list will not necessarily match the name of the colorant painted by the graphic.

As a result, when separated PostScript is poured from Quark, the color name specified in the %%PlateColor comment will not match the colorant painted by the EPS graphic. When the graphic is omitted and later merged with OPI, nothing from the EPS will be painted on the Pantone separation.

Solution

1. Use the CV variant of the colorant name when creating graphics with Pantone spots

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and/or

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2. Verify (edit if necessary) color names in Quark after placing graphics with Pantone spots.

Permanent fix:

See also

Keywords

OPI, Quark, spot color

Technical contact(s)

James Bredenhof

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