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Roland PC600 Virgin ;-P
Yeah, I know…(I’m a late developer!)
We are using it for pre-production presentations prior to volume screen printing, and went for the PC600 because we need to simulate white, silver, etc on clear vinyl.
Driving direct from WindowsXP/Corel 12, with no general problems at all, but:I haven’t got a clue how to set up to use spot colours.
Everything I do just leads to loads of beeping and flashing lights, as though I haven’t got the right ribbon loaded (but I have).Ideally, I’d like to lay down (e.g.) greyscale gradient tint then fill in spot colours all in one go.
All (any) constructive advice gratefully received.
BFN
Malcolm
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Hi Malcolm
I have recently purchased a second hand PC-60 and am going
through the same learning curve.
I ended up with flashing lights also. My problem was I was that I loaded
some silver ribbon into a Magenta cartridge and didn’t have the file to
print a silver code sticker for the cartridge so I just set my print up
as Magenta CMYK and it printed fine.Cheers
Paul -
‘was I was’. Good gramma. I guess thats what you get with 2hrs sleep
paul
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You may find it easier to print to the PC600 using flexi-sign- it has integrated support for spot colours and works very well with the PC60 and PC600 in my experience.
Failing that it MAY be possible to create a swatch in Corel that is a spot colour and labelled as the colour you want the machine to output- I have little experience of Corel but it may just do the trick. Also remember that ribbons often get delivered with the incorrect barcodes on them- causing flashing lights etc
unfortunately we don’t have ours anymore else I would try it out for you
Hope that helps
Rob
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