PC 600 – How do I print spot colours?

[Mike Grant]

Find the RGB or CMYK value in Corel then set up this value in the printers driver and save the colour. Be sure that you always use the exact same blue each time or the printer wont pick up other shades of blue. (blue used just as an example)
I hope this makes sense! 😕

[mahdesign]

I use a Windows 98 based system as it has a better driver for the PC600 which allows you to use all the spot colour options.

If your using Win XP and trying to do a 2 colour spot forget it I spent days trying to get it working and gave up.

[Fabrice Menard]

hello all,

I have a similar problem at the moment. Well it is not really a problem since I managed ColorChoice RIP to do the job correctly.

I’m using Illustrator CS3 or CS4: whenever I want to print spot colors or cut both are printed with the CMYK cartridges (e.g: cut contour is printed in Magenta instead of cutting) although Spot colors and cutting are enabled in the windows driver. I am running XP.

When I export exactly the same file to eps (version for AI8, later version format does not work) and send to the PC600 usiong ColorChoice, spot colors are correctly printed and cutting is OK.

Is there any trick or special print settings in Illustrator so that spot color and cutting works directly when printing from Illustrator?

[Alex Pirozek]

Hi Jason,
You can either use the default userinks.cpl palette in corel or create a new palette with the following values.

Colour pallete settings for PC60 / PC600 and Corel Draw

All need to be in this order and in RGB ONLY as the driver will only recognise these values for each colour.

Red = 255-0-0
Green = 0-255-0
Blue = 0-0-128
Cyan = 0-255-255
Magenta = 255-0-255
Yellow = 255-255-0
Orange = 255-128-0
Black = 0-0-0
White = 255-255-255
Gold = 128-128-0
Silver = 128-128-128

to print in these colours you need to select from process cartridge
Y,M,C,K CR-MR Resin from drop down list
and then go to special and select the colour cartridge required.

Then UCR = Spot colour.
Make sure that all colour cartridges have the correct barcode labels on.

Alex.