Printing and color headache

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Shaggy3zx

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I designed a business card and sent it out to the printer, but it looks like they are having some problems. I am too because this is really the first time I have had something professionally printed.

I have an orange color and they say it is 4 color and they need it in three color.

Does this mean that I should just create a new swatch with the orange as a spot color?

The lady I spoke with mentioned something about just creating a new "Magenta" and making it the orange.....I have no clue, she is just confusing the heck out of me.


Also she mentioned that I probably need to turn overprinting on for black.


Any help here? I am using Illustrator CS2.

Thank you, :bows: :)
 
u need to make your document CMYK and choose from the cmyk pallate..
CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW (3 Colors ) and Black.
Some colors cannot be created with this combination, therfore special pigments(spot colors) are ordered just for that(very expensive)

so just choose an magenta yellow combination to create the desired orange.

did they ask you to separate the colors??

as for overprinting it all depends on your the where the blacks are on the card.
 
My document is CMYK.

I'm not sure if they wanted the colors seperated or not.

I just went ahead and deleted all the colors from the pallette that I do not need. Now the pallete only has, BLACK, YELLLOW & Pantone 143 (orange)

I turned on overprinting where there is black text over the orange box; the remaining text prints on "bare card".

I sure hope this works!
 
*hits self* :eek:

Nowww I got it! If I select a cmyk color like "Global Orange", then I can use the tint ramp to easily change the value and there are only two color values: magenta & yellow.

Sweet! :)
 
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