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how do you group colours on the edge?
Hi all we have only had our edge a few weeks so please forgive the question but the problem is really frustrating me.
I did my first tiled job today 1800mm x 1200mm the sign has a narrow black border and several black words and black logo plus a few blocks at 50% black & 25% black now the question is when i print it the edge calls for the black foil and prints the border rewinds then calls for the same foil and prints the rest….how can I make it print all on the one pass. hope that makes sense. I have the omega manual but don’t know what I am looking for. using omega 2.2.
Many thanks Mike 😀 -
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A stab in the dark here, is there a "grey scale" setting. When I had a PC600 that is what I had to do for it to print as a one colour pass.
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Just guessing, but does the software see the solid black as a cmyk spot colour, but see the grey scale as RGB?
Its actually seeing two different colours, and not shades of black (100%, 50% & 25%).
I know if I print cmyk black and RGB black on the same file, the blacks will be different shades.
May be the same thing?
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Thanks for the time taken to answer.
the printer was seeing the border as process black and the main print as spot black I don’t know why because I had set them as spot black everywhere ( I thought) Somebody in USA pointed out a button called 123 button that list what foils it is going to use and if you don’t like it you can then bring up the one you don’t like and change it. Just had to print the bottom panel again and all went as I wanted.
Thanks for the time taken to answer.
Cheers Mike 😀 -
Make sure that when you design the job in composer with different shades of the same foil that you make them all the same overprint, either all on or all off, the edge prints the non overprint first then goes back and does all the overprints.
If i have one overprint in the job i make sure all the same colours have the overprint turned on.
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I always check on ‘print order’ that the colours I want to use are the only ones listed there. If I get different ‘numbered or shades’ of black I then click on each part of the design and designate the same colour until there is just the one black showing ( for instance ).
I hope that makes sense ?
Saph 🙂
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thanks everybody.
quite enjoying our new toy can’t wait till I know what all the buttons in the program do. -
Its been a while since i have used composer, but following on from saphs comments, if you find duplicates of colours ie both cmyk black and spot black, if you go to select in your menu, you can select all cmyk black (fills or strokes) and change to spot black. This is quite handy especially with an imported job where maybe just one of your strokes turns out to be a cmyk colour and you cant find the pesky blighter. With shades you would have to do them one at a time.
Mart
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