Colour Separations for Screen Printing

[RMcKenzie]

I'm trying to make colour separations for screenprinting, not CMYK plates, but all the visible items of the same colour isolated and printed as black. Any ideas? I'm sure its simple but I'm relatively new to this program. Thanks!

 

[blueark]

Make sure the colors you're using are all spot colors. When you go to print, you'll have to change from 'Composite' to 'Separations', and you may need to do some tweaking in the Separation Setup window. However, some of the specifics probably depend on your print driver.

 

[tad1952]

You are creating a lot of extra work for yourself - YOU don't have to actually change all the elements of each colour to black. Just make sure each colour is a spot colour & when you print, tell the printer to print the job out as separations and, voila, each of the colours will print out on a separate page - in black. You will need to print out registration & crop marks on each page so that the silkscreener can register the colours properly.

I remember seeing someone create a job with 3 colours, make 3 copies and then delete 2 colours from each copy so that they ended up with 1 file for each colour - then changing all elements on each page to black. A complete waste of time - let the printer do the work for you - more accurate and much faster.