can anyone tell me why i cannot print spot colours please?

[Peter Normington]

At what point do you find out that you cant print spot colours, I use a gerber so maybe the roland is diferent, Are you printing “as set in design or as per printer settings Etc. Do you get a message that process colours are present.
Peter

[Gordon Forbes]

It says that in the help file that you get a message like this and I did twice and it seemed to want to print them as a seperate page so I clicked no and now I don’t get the message which I think I am supposed to do.

On the same point the code on the cartridge was black so I stuck on a silver one and made the colour silver but still don’t get the message or printing a spot
So am sittig back from it for a while and might even try thru Illustrator and RCC though that would be another “learning” experience as I haven’t done it that way before.

I will try both options an see how I get on.

thanks

[Frank Droog]

Assuming no other issues, all i can think of is that under File/PrintNCut Setup / Preferances, you have a checkmark beside “Print spots as process”. This may even be the default value.

frank at cadlink

[Frank Droog]

Also, there are i believe differant versions of Signlab, some of which support printing of Spot colors and some that dont. You may need to double check if you have the “thermal module” as only certain printers support Spot Colors.
The non thermal versions will still import Spot colors and and let you design with them but will convert to process when printing.

frank at cadlink

[J. Hulme]

Spot colour pallette for ribbons loaded?
make sure the rgb values are that of the carts maybe you can import a working pallette from an earlier version?

[Gordon Forbes]

What I can’t understand is why I get the message about spot colours the first couple of times I printed the file (still didn’t print them) but now I get no message.

I load the Roland PC600 palette and choose the spot colour from there the code is correct for the colour the only thing it says is it’s a spot foil so I changed this to spot colour and it makes no difference.

I noticed that I was opening a pallete instead of loading it (made no difference anyway.)

When I view the installed palettes Roland is not there even though I select it load it

Even tried mapping colours and it still don’t work.

I am using CMYK should it be RGB???

[Gordon Forbes]

I would re install it but I can’t find me reg key Doh!!!!!

[J. Hulme]

quote Forbie:

I would re install it but I can’t find me reg key Doh!!!!!

The reg key is available in install modules, the rgb is a strange one, the values for the carts set up in rgb.

[Gordon Forbes]

Update on the Spot colour saga.

Had a Cadlink rep phone me asked a few questions ie if i had been able to do print spot colours before as he said Ver 7 is primarily for the Edge (better not be or I want my money back) anyway told hime it worked in E6.

Said he would call back he didn’t.
I have a laptop and fired it up to see E6 sitting there and hooked it up to print Printed spots no problem black and silver with the orange ribbon no probs

Imported that .pal file into Ver 7 and it didn’t work.

Did a reinstall of Ver 7 and will try again today sometime to see if I get the spot colour message when I go to print and to see if Cadlink call back.

I ain’t gonna hold my breath.

Peter if you read this what machine are you using?.

Goop

[Peter Normington]

gorden, I use an edge 2 so maybe your problem peculiar to pc600.
Are you speaking to cadlink direct or their agent?
btw the reg key is not available from the install modules tab in v7, well not on my machine anyway, will have to look into that, I know it was there in previous versions
Peter

[Gordon Forbes]

You don’t need the reg key its encrypted on the disk already to reinstall just load the disk and it installs.

[Gordon Forbes]

Thanks Outline I got the reg key off my laptop for the E6 version.

[David Evans]

Hello,

Make sure you load up the PC-60 / 600 spot foil palette, you want to use spot foils (spot colours are for something completely different).

If you want to draw a couple of squares and give them a spot foil from the PC-60 palette and then test it, if it fails send me the CDL file and I can tell you whats wrong.
Also when you print to the print and cut manager, you could archive the job and send me the archive with the CDL.

If its a specific file then send me that.

Also check your password is setup for Spot colour support,
File-install-modules
click on modules and look for Spot color support.

e-mail me on davee@cadlink.com

I am on the road in Canada and the US, but will try and get back, best if you can do this Mon / Tue.

Best regards

-David Evans
Cadlink.