I posted a thread not long ago asking about how to correctly print negatives from Quark Xpress to a postscript file. I got some great responses and realized that there were settings I could change in my Acrobat Distiller to make the negative come out appropriately. Here is the new challenge though:
For some reason, using this process, every time I make my "negative" file, any .eps file that uses "white" does not reverse out properly. It should come out solid black when I make the file into a negative, but it comes out screened. Using "white" from Quark does not do this. Only Illustrator .eps files. I have tried different versions of Illustrator, I have tried .ai files and .eps files. I've tried using Quark, I've tried using InDesign, nothing is working. I've tried changing our printer setting and Acrobat Distiller color Settings.
Here is the process I'm using now (to see if there is something I'm missing). A composite file is made in Quark 6.5 with several different components of art and text. We make a negative postscript file out of that composite (which does not invert completely correctly). Then we take that postscript file, and distill it using Acrobat Distiller (with some settings made so that the postscript file will invert properly as a .pdf) and place that final .pdf in a hot folder for our Colorburst Rip software (printing to an Epson 4800 printer).
The .pdf file views properly. But when it prints, any .eps file that has "white" in it does not turn to solid black, it turns to a screen of it. When I look at the files in Pitstop, the difference is that components that are white in Quark, show a color of "Grayscale brightness 0%". Components that are white in Illustrator are "C=0, M=0, Y=0, K=0". I am able to use Global Change in Pitstop to convert the art to match the Quark components, but I am the only one here that has Pitstop and I'm not the one that makes these composite files. I need to figure out a way for the others here to make them without having to change things in Pitstop. I've tried changing the mode of the white swatch in Illustrator to Grayscale, I've tried saving the Illustrator files as black & white instead of color. Nothing is working.
I know this may seem confusing, but it is really important for me to make this process work for our employees that have to do this daily. Any ideas?
For some reason, using this process, every time I make my "negative" file, any .eps file that uses "white" does not reverse out properly. It should come out solid black when I make the file into a negative, but it comes out screened. Using "white" from Quark does not do this. Only Illustrator .eps files. I have tried different versions of Illustrator, I have tried .ai files and .eps files. I've tried using Quark, I've tried using InDesign, nothing is working. I've tried changing our printer setting and Acrobat Distiller color Settings.
Here is the process I'm using now (to see if there is something I'm missing). A composite file is made in Quark 6.5 with several different components of art and text. We make a negative postscript file out of that composite (which does not invert completely correctly). Then we take that postscript file, and distill it using Acrobat Distiller (with some settings made so that the postscript file will invert properly as a .pdf) and place that final .pdf in a hot folder for our Colorburst Rip software (printing to an Epson 4800 printer).
The .pdf file views properly. But when it prints, any .eps file that has "white" in it does not turn to solid black, it turns to a screen of it. When I look at the files in Pitstop, the difference is that components that are white in Quark, show a color of "Grayscale brightness 0%". Components that are white in Illustrator are "C=0, M=0, Y=0, K=0". I am able to use Global Change in Pitstop to convert the art to match the Quark components, but I am the only one here that has Pitstop and I'm not the one that makes these composite files. I need to figure out a way for the others here to make them without having to change things in Pitstop. I've tried changing the mode of the white swatch in Illustrator to Grayscale, I've tried saving the Illustrator files as black & white instead of color. Nothing is working.
I know this may seem confusing, but it is really important for me to make this process work for our employees that have to do this daily. Any ideas?