Color printing in Illustrator

If I create an object such as a hex, fill it with color, put a stroke around it, and then put color type over the fill, the type is muddy when printed. It doesn't look that way on the screen. I moved the type layer to the top. Still no success. The print preview gave me a warning about flattening the layers. I did that. No good.
I did the same thing in Pagemaker, InDesign, and Photoshop and they print out the way they look on the screen. These programs are all on the same machine and the color printer is the same.

I got the answer from a reply to another question. Changing the document color setup to the InDesign document color setup worked.

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Problem with Color Print in Illustrator. Photoshop fine. Epson R2400

OK.. I’ve spent all morning trying to troubleshoot bad color on Illustrator CS4 to Epson R2400 and can’t find a solution. Mac 10.5.8
I’m getting off color (but a neutral grayscale) when printing to from AI 14.0 to Epson Stylus Photo R2400. This just started today. The graphic prints fine in Photoshop.
The main color in logo is R-125, G-69, B-73 in sRGB editing space. It prints very magenta from AI to Epson 2400. Prints fine to my HP laser and fine to PDF.
I’m not new to Color Management and I’ve double-checked all the usual suspects.
Recalibrated Monitor
Re-installed Epson print driver (v6.57)
checked ink nozzles
Checked color settings (synched in Bridge to NA Gen Purpose 2)
checked proper document and printer/paper profile are selected (sRGB to Matte HW)
checked Relative Colorimetric
in Printer dialog checked proper Media Type selected (Epson Matte HW)
and that Color Settings were set to No Color Management.
trashed AI Preferences.
I’m using Epson Inks and Papers.
Same image prints fine from Photoshop using same color settings.
any other ideas?
Thanks much.
Charles

Yea! Working today. One of these things did it, I think. (unfortunately, I did not test after each one)
Recalibrated monitor, again
Trashed Epson Printer Utility from its Utilities folder
Reinstalled Epson driver, again
Deleted all my Presets in the OS Print Set Up dialog box.
So, one of those things helped, or benevolent weekend gremlins.

PRINTING? illustrator CS4 to HP Pro b9180

Does anyone have experience managing the color printing from illustrator CS4 to an HP Photosmart Pro 9180?
I am getting pretty innaccurate color. I usually do all my priinting thru photoshop but now need to do a lot of tiled printing so am working with AiCs4.
The problem I'm having is this - in Ai' s print dialog box there seems to be no way to turn the color management over to the printer - in print dialog the only choice is to let Ai manage the color... print > Color Mgmnt > "Let Illustrator determine color" and below that a printer profile is chosen. No choice who determines the color. Correct?
BUT then in the HP printer dialog box the choices under "color Matching" are not greyed out the way they are when printing in Photoshop and letting it handle the color.
This leads to "Color Matching" > "Vendor Matching" and further along under PaperType/Quality > Color Options > Adobe RGB (the space I work in). This is what HP tech recommended. I've tried all kinds of variations and combos of choices with absolutely bad results.
At this point I'm pretty flustered. Am I missing something? I'm used to getting near perfect results in printing so this is killin' me. This SHOULD be easy :-(
thanks in advance...
ps-I am on a MacBPro, OS 10.6.4... Ai 14.0.0

Hi Jo-Winch I hope you are doing well and welcome to the HP forum
If I understand correclty.
You are regiter to Eprint.
you already have an e-mail assigned to the printer
You are trying to send a print job thru that email and is giving the error that you describe
If that is the case then check if the email's sender (probably you) included a signature included in the email. If thatis the case Removed and try again.
Let me know if I can be of any further assistance. I will do my best to help you.
Hope this helps;
RobertoR
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Printing Issue: Colors print fine from Photoshop but washed out in Illustrator

I am having trouble printing from Illustrator. The same image...whether cut and pasted, opened in, or using the swatch created....prints differently in Photoshop and Illustrator. I need to use this specific color (for branding purposes) and it prints fine in Photoshop but washed out and grey-ish in illustrator.
I've made sure the color settings are the same (in bridge) and made sure all the print settings are the same. It is the same color on the screen, and in detail, but the print output is clearly different. Any help please??

If I print from Acrobat, everything is washed out and greyed - both the PDF from Illustrator and the PDF saved from Photoshop.
I tried letting the printer decide and I tried set to illustrator - both washed out and greyed.
Here are my settings in illustrator:

My CMYK color codes seem to be off when I print from Illustrator. What could be causing this?

I have been using CMYK codes to print in Illustrator. For some reason, the colors are now printing very dark and a bit off - (ex: Royal blue 100.51.0.0 is printing almost like a violet. It's dark and kind of purple.) I'm printing on a Xerox Phaser 6500 and spoke to their support to make sure that the settings were correct. What should the settings be to ensure that I haven't changed something accidentally or caused this problem?

Are you using a RIP with that Phaser? Or, are you using the Phaser driver? Have you done any Adobe updates recently? What changed since the last time you achieved accurate CMYK prints? What OS are you using? What happens when you print a PDF of the file? Have you tried printing that CMYK combination in other apps? There are a ton of variables that could affect prints. Have you checked the inks? Try running a check on the printer using its utilities.

Why can't I print from Illustrator a non-faded print. It always prints as if I wanted a proof or something.

Why can't I print from Illustrator a non-faded print. It always prints as if I wanted a proof or something.

YOu have not provided any system info, version info or details about your printer. This is not going anywhere beyond stating the obvious - your system is not color managed.
Mylenium

Dear Spot Color Printing Gods......... Please Help Me!

Ok so here is my story...
I have been doing graphic design and 3D work for about 7 years. I have NEVER worked in print before, and no NOTHING of color separation or spot color, etc... I am learning all this right now on the fly for my new job, and its not going well. I was hired and expected to hit the ground running, even though I made it clear I did not have any screen printing experience. (I was mainly hired to help with web design) I have had some mistakes doing the color separation (not 4 color) and its costing the printer money to see if I did it wrong or not. The printer has no experience with the software (and only speaks English fairly well), nor does my boss know the software, but they both know how its SUPPOSED to look, and they are getting impatient.. Needless to say, I have to turn to the internet for help, so please be gentle with me not knowing much...
SO....Im a PC user working on a Mac & Illustrator Cs3(I know Mac fairly well). I have learned the basics pretty fast for screen printing. The printer is using spot colors only. After I get the Illustrator file (yes its vector), I delete all swatches except the "Pantone Solid Coated" colors used in the art - or I have to add them from the Solid Coated color book. After that, I would separate the colors by 1) Duplicating the image however many times that there are colors. (So a splat of soup has 3 colors, I duplicate it 3 times with register marks) 2) I remove all the color except the one Im trying to show. (Im showing the green peas, so I remove the red and yellow colors from the other objects) 3) then I make what the printer calls the "Flash" (the white undertone that the paint adheres to on the garment) I make this by taking the art, and reducing the size to 1pt smaller. Once all the colors are seperated, I make each color 100% black, convert the image to grayscale and THEN Im done. Problems I have been running into have been registration marks somehow not lining up and some colors do not end up 100% spot tones.. One other wierd thing is when I convert to grayscale on the Mac, the art work retains its color on the screen. When I tried to do that at home on my PC, the artwork turns gray????
WHEW! So what I am asking for is a fast, simple way to color seperate a vector file and then create the flash. And/or how to create a template that I can reuse, that is ready for me to just drop artwork into for spot color seperation. I have included an image to show you a project I am working on. Its an ice cream spill on a shirt. I have tried to start a template with reg. marks, and that is what you will see here. There are 5 colors that I have to specify. The printer actually told me that I do not need to split up the art work the way I have been, nor do I need to change it to black, and all that I have to do is specify all the colors,(spot colors/100% only) and then the printer does the seperation on the clear film. (it only prints in black) I was also curious why my PC would change the artwork gray and the Mac does not when converting to grayscale. I thank you VERY MUCH for even reading this maddness that is my life right now, and hope you can give me some helpful wisdom to assist and lead me on my journey. The job pays well, and I need the money badly! Thank you very much for any and all help you can give me!
~LiQ

Some misconceptions evidenced in your post.
You don't have to use a Pantone library to create spot colors. Pantone is just one brand of spot color definitions and inks intended for offset lithography; not screen printing. You can define any color you want as a Swatch and then specify it as Spot. A Spot color is simply a color that represents an individual ink that will be physically used in the printing process. Therefore, if you want to please your boss:
1. Get the color chip brochure for the particular brand(s) of screen ink your operation uses.
2. Open Illustrator. New CMYK document. Delete all the Swatches that can be deleted.
3. In the Swatches palette, for each color of your screen inks, create a new Swatch. Use the CMYK sliders to make its color match the ink as best you can. Name the swatch according to the name of the actual screen ink (ex: Nazdar_BrilliantBlue). In fact, the ink manufacturer(s) you use may already provide a ready-made Illustrator Swatch Library for their various series of inks. Check their websites to see.
4. After creating the swatches, save the Library, and/or save the file as a tempate file. Now you'll always have your Spot colors available for new projects.
Now just draw your design and apply the spot colors to the paths as fills and/or strokes. When you print the file as separations, you'll get a separate print for each spot color used. One of the simplest ways to "proof" (test) this is to "print" as separations to the Adobe PDF virtual printer. That will result in a PDF file that has one grayscale page for each ink in your design. That way, you can check what overprints and what knocks out on screen without wasting time or materials. Once confident everything is right, you can then use the PDF to print the actual film positives.
One of your swatches should be a spot white for your underprint. ( "Flash" is not actually an ink color. It's a production step in which a dryer semi-dries an imprinted ink before overprinting it with another. You usually flash a white underprint, but you just as often flash any color with significant density that needs to be overprinted with a following color.) Understand, you don't have to make this swatch actually appear white. For example, I often make it a pale magenta just so I can see it on screen when working with it.
Just because the white underprint is going to be printed underneath the other colors, doesn't mean it has to be layered under your other colors in your Illustrator document. Remember, each ink is going to be printed to its own plate anyway. So it's simpler to just put your white underprint objects on a Layer above the rest of the artwork, and set it to overprint, so that it doesn't knock out the rest of the artwork on layers below it in the stacking order.
Assuming the white underprint has to underprint all the other colors, creating the white underprint should be the near-last step. It's simply a matter of duplicating the colored artwork objects, moving them to the Underprint layer, filling/stroking them with the spot white color and (for efficiency) merging them into as few paths as possible. The Merge or Union Pathfinder commands are typically used for that.
JET

Why is a color print from CS5 so different from the same image in CS4?

I have made prints from the same file using CS4 and CS5, and the prints from CS4 are showing what I think is good color. My monitor is calibrated, and I have always been quite happy with prints from CS4. When I make prints of the same files using CS5, the color is terrible compared to the CS4 print. I am using the same printer, same sRGB color space and all the settings in the "Print" dialog windows. I make sure the Color Handling box is set to "Photoshop Manages Colors" and I then go to the "Page Setup" box and make sure Color Settings is set to Off (No Color Adjustments). I am using a New MacPro Quad-Core Intel Xeon with 16 GB ram. I did notice that Apple Software Update did install Epson drivers after I installed CS5 Creative Suite 5 Design Premium. The color using CS5 looks the same starting in either 32 bit or in 64 bit. Another thing I notice is that printing on an Epson 2200 Stylus and using their 13x19 paper that the prints are being cropped to 5/8 inch into the full screen size of the images. I.E. The prints are losing 5/8 inch of what I see on the 30" Apple monitor. in both dimensions of the screen image. This cropping effect is showing now using CS4 and CS5. I have "Position" checked for Center Image, and Scale to Fit Media is also checked. I've been using PS since version 2 and have always been quite happy with the prints from my Epson printers and the prints from my Photo Lab, but the prints I am getting using CS5 are terrible. All the settings are the same in both the CS4 and CS5 "PRINT" windows.
HELP!!!! :-)

I have tried all of these things. I have checked and double-checked the print dialog. Sheet after sheet of paper goes by. Ink, at $40 per tank, is wasted. Results are still wrong. I followed your video. You use an Epson printer. I use an HP. Different print dialogs. different results. Whatever worked in previous PS versions does not work now. PS CS5 requires new settings to get the results that match what was determined by years of evolution and fine-tuning.
I set up all of those print dialog parameters but it required an adjustment layer or two to get the results I got using previous Photoshop. So I could do that with every image I printed with good results using previous versions. There is nothing out of gamut in these images, so I don't have unrealistic expectations about more saturation in the prints. Anyway, it's an 8-color printer that can handle a pretty wide gamut compared to a 4-color.
Wade, I know you are trying to help but this finger-wagging "error in your ways" and "you need to change your ways" stuff is patronizing. I did "change my ways" and try everything in your video. All was not well on the paper. I'm glad it worked out for you but it didn't for me. Accept it. I'm not some novice hobbyist still getting the hang of Photoshop. I've been using Photoshop since version 2. Adobe changed something in CS5. I haven't seen Chis Cox or any Adobe staffer jump into this discussion and say otherwise. Maybe there are no answers from the folks who should know the most about it. Maybe they're working on it.
It's not the first time Adobe has broken a tool. Anyone remember what happened to Outline Stroke in Illustrator CS2? It had previously made a path that could be edited by selecting points but after CS2, it was broken. Illustrator made a filled path that was nearly impossible to edit with all of the overlapping points. It was finally fixed in CS4. It's hard to understand how a useful tool that functioned properly in every version since it was introduced became an unusable mess. Maybe that's the case with PS CS5 and printing.
With 4,300+ posts in 14 months, maybe Wade has more time to tinker and tell us about it. I don't.
Or I could just print in CS4. At this point it's not that important to spend several days of testing to be able to say that CS5 can print my legacy stuff that was created and printed with various color profiles over a 12 year period. Maybe a more disciplined approach to color management would be a good way to work in the future when creating images, I'm dealing with tried-and-true printable images that were not done that way.
As long as Adobe doesn't make me give up CS4 to use CS5, I'll use it for printing.

Unable to print in Illustrator CS3

I am now encountering my recurring problem - trying to print one of my maps. To give some background, this is for a boardgame and consists of almost solely Illustrator effects. There is a small amount of material from Photoshop incorporated. It consists of some 20 layers of various effects, and was generated in Illustrator CS 3 (13.0.2) under Mac OS X 10.6.8.
Over the years, I have generated a number of large maps, for various efforts. These range in size from about 6-12 sq.ft. All the maps are generated in Adobe Illustrator, ranging from Illustrator 10 to CS3. The maps are generated on beefy hardware platform (MacPro, various iterations, lots of RAM), with no problems in generating the map artwork.
However, over the years, when it comes to trying to print of of these maps, I am almost completely unable to print them. I dont have access to a large format printer, so I try and print these using various small size printers, and tiling the pages. However, this inevitablely fails. I am unable to print on any printer, under any OS (Mac OS X or Win XP), with any hardware, with any settings I have tried.***
The current effort is an .AI file of about 100 MB is size. I have also saved this same file as a PDF (flattened layers from AI, ~100MB in size), and as a PDF without Illustrator editing capability (this reduces the file size to 12 MB).
I have tried using Illustrator or Acrobat to print these documents. At best, I can sit there and watch the status bar creep to 100%, and then sit there for 15 minutes, at which point I give up. At no time do any of the printers show any activity.
I have tried printing just one tile (page) of the map, and it does the same thing.
This is of course intensely frustrating to encounter this again. I cannot figure out why this is happening. Is there some sort of pre-press operations I need to do ?
thanks,
Tom
*** There is one exception. I have a small Brother HL-2270DL printer attached to my home network. Using Illustrator, I can print the entire tiled map in a matter of a few minutes. I have no idea why this works. Acrobat still totally fails. As satisfying as actually printing something out, I need a color print.

Mike, while I am currently struggling with this one file, this same issue has dogged me for many years, over several different files, with, as far as I can tell, nothing in common, other than I generated them (the problem lies between the keyboard and the chair ? : ) Each of these maps is heavy AI work, with gratuitous use of textures, patterns, swatches, brushes and feathering effects. There is a little bit of PS Placed artwork, but not much.
I will see if leaving out the placed artwork makes things work better, but the amount of Placed artowrk is pretty small.
What really baffles me, is that in its most distilled format (PDF with no Illustrator editing), the file is only 12 MB. I cant fathom how a 12 MB file can present a challenge to any computer made in thre last 5 years.
I havet not yet explored the Advanced printing options, and I dont know what most of that does (even after doing AI for 8 years or more, I am still a hack).
Is there a good book that explains the different printing options and strategies ? I am flying somewhat blind when it comes to something other than simple printing.
One further data point: I opened up the previously mentioned 12 MB PDF, using Photoshop. I rasterized the document to the tune of 300 DPI, and then saved it as a Photoshop PDF. My thought was that opening in PS destroys any vector information and saving back out as a PS PDF then puts it into a form I could print from work. From work, I opened this file on a Windows machine with plenty of horsepower and resources. I attempted to print to a beefy Xerox 7xxx series office printer. I tiled the document an hit "print". The progress bar stayed at 0% for 20 minutes. During that time, the CPU load ranged from ~5-20%, and the free RAM stayed at about 1.7 GB. I checked the printer during this time, and it registered a print job, but no progress was made. I gave up after 20 minutes.
thanks,
Tom

Can't print from Illustrator or Acrobat

Hi all,
I just upgraded my iMac to Mavericks, and am now having trouble printing from CS5. The message I get is "Can't print the illustration. The Color Management settings are inconsistent." I hadn't made any color management changes, so I assume this is related to the upgrade. I checked AI, PS, ID, and Acrobat, and all the settings are North American General Purpose 2. I opened Bridge, and it has the same color setting, and says that all CS apps are synchronized using the same color settings. How do I fix this so I can print?
Thanks,
Sue

Most of the time, I can't access the Printers & Scanners pane at all - I keep getting an error message (Could not load Printers & Scanners preference pane.). The few times that I did get in, the left pane that usually lists my printers is filled with bits and pieces of type and illustrations and symbols, so I can't select a printer. I tried printing to a different printer (Epson), and can do that without any issues (duh, don't know why I didn't try that last night). I can also print from Word to the printer that my CS5 apps won't print to (HP).
I spent some time this morning with AppleCare, and they want to walk me through reinstalling Mavericks. I have too much work to do at the moment to take the hour or so to reinstall, so I'll call them back this evening.
This is fun. Not.

Can't print the Illustration

I am running Illustrator CS3 with the 13.02 update under Windows Vista Home Premium service pack 1.
Whatever I try to print, even just one square, will not print on my HP Color Laserjet 2700n or my Epson Stylus Pro 3800. I get a message saying "Can't print the illustration". Both printers will print from Photoshop CS3, Lightroom 2.1 (release candidate) and Acrobat reader 8.1.2. My laptop running the same version of Illustrator under Windows XP pro service pack 2. will print fine on the HP printer over my Wireless network.
I have read the Faqs , searched the forum and the Internet and spent many hour trying to solve this problem and I would be really grateful for and help you could give me. In addition I have reset the preference file and uninstalled and reinstalled Illustrator.
As far as Photoshop is concerned I am an advanced amateur but in Illustrator I am a novice.
The PC is a HP m9056uk with 3GB of ram and an Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz CPU. It has two 500GB SATA hard drives. All device drivers are, to the best of my knowledge, up to date.

Hi,
I have many problems of printing with the re-installation of the Illustrator CS2 after format my computer, a portable HP pavilion. I try two printers : First, a Canon S600, ( old printer ) and my new one a HP all in one series, C3180.
For theses two printer, Illustrator don't want to print anything simple like a red rectangle. The message says: ''Can't print the illustration ''. Before formating, the old printer S600 work like a charm with this software. I don't understand. I look for new drivers on the S600. I find it and install it but the problems is still there...
Do anybody can help me ? I tried some solutions that I read on the net but nothing work today.
Thanks
Marc-André

Organizing colour mode for print in Illustrator

Hi,
I want to set up my document as a two-colour for print. I'm not really sure what is the correct swatch library to choose, if there is such a thing. Either way, i selected Pantone Solid Uncoated as my swatch library. I chose two colours from this and applied them to all aspects of my document. However, the document colour mode is still set to the default CMYK, and my only other choice is RGB. My question is, how do I organize my document to be 2-colour pantone print ready?
Regards,
Erin.

I'm not really sure what is the correct swatch library to choose, if there is such a thing.
Erin,
You don't have to use a so-called "Color Book" Swatch Library at all to define a spot color. You can set up the on-screen appearance of a color any way you want (using RGB or CMYK values) and simply define it as a Spot Color. You can also name a spot color anything you want. And you can do this in either a CMYK or RGB document.
The truth is, a spot color is nothing but grayscale values sent to a single color separation plate.
For example: Suppose you just don't find Illustrator's onscreen display a convincing rendition of Pantone Metallic 875. You can simply create a new swatch, adjust its CMYK or RGB sliders to something that does look like 875 on screen, set that Swatch to Spot, and name it "Pantone 875 Spot."
Different example: Suppose you are building a 5-color (process plus 1 spot) glossy brochure (a very common practice). The client's logotype color spec is Pantone 875 metallic. You want occurrances of the logo and the company's tag line to overprint in that ink. But you also need to simulate the logotype color in product illustrations that will occur in the brochure. You have learned from experience (read tests) that even Pantone's own recommendation for CMYK simulation of 875 does not yield a satisfying or convincing simulation in print. In this case, you might simply define the CMYK values that you consider satisfying for simulating 875 in CMYK artwork, name that Swatch "Pantone 875 Process", duplicate that Swatch, change it to Spot, and rename it "Pantone 875 Spot." When you print seps, you'll still get seps named Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, and Pantone 875 Spot.
It's all-too-easy (and all-too-frequent in this forum) to just toss out off-the-top "feature requests." It's quite another thing to actually think it through before doing so. Illustrator does not need a separate "spot color mode."
Spot color is, by definition, for print, as is CMYK. They are just elements of the same color-separation process. Spot color is quite commonly combined with CMYK process. It would be patently ridiculous to require changing a document from CMYK to Spot Color just to use spot color. Spot color swatches are used every day in CMYK documents for everything ranging from the 5-color artwork described above to varnishes and spot liquid lamination.
Even Illustrator's distinction between CMYK and RGB Document Color Modes has more to do with maintaining onscreen display of color than with any mechanical or workflow necessity. Other programs don't do that. You don't see "CMYK vs. RGB" documents in Draw, FreeHand, Canvas. In any mainstream drawing program, you can define RGB and/or CMYK and/or spot colors all day long in the same document. Users have been doing this just fine for literal decades. I have decades of project archives to proove it.
Now, something that would be both useful and genuinely innovative in vector programs (and befitting the industry's sometimes overblown focus on onscreen color calibration) is onscreen consideration of the real-world opacity of inks. Fact is, even with all of Illustrator's hair-splitting focus on color-calibration profiles, etc., etc., it (and all other programs like it) does a pathetic job of making a reasonable onscreen representation of spot inks. Understand--this is not a matter of color model "mode"; it's a matter of overcoming the effective assumption that there is only one kind of "printing" in the world, i.e., offset printing with translucent inks.
Example: Set up a process-color job that will be printed not on white paper, but on a dark substrate. The illustration is, say, a dinosaur. You, the illustrator (remember? the name of this program is "Illustrator") intend to use yellow ink as a highlight that overprints some darker green. You know this will work, because you know that the yellow spot ink you have specified is much more opaque than the translucency of ordinary CMYK offset process inks that Illustrator always assumes. Suppose that in addition to this, you intend to use an opaque white ink in the design; or a metallic. Turn on the so-called "overprint preview" feature and you'll see that Illustrator (and programs like it)--with all its painstaking focus on onscreen color calibration and gee-whiz "transparency"--is completely incapable of convincingly displaying this common scenario--used everyday on everything from T-shirts to lunch boxes. The fact is, illustration programs are used every day as workflow production tools for much broader applications than just offset printing and web pages. There's silkscreen, signage, embroidery, flexography, etc.
A spot ink is nothing more than a user-defined ink--a process separation plate other than the common four. Stating that Illustrator 'needs a Spot Color mode' is confusing spot color with line art. Spot color is as much a part of process separation as it can be part of line art. Providing the user the ability to specify the real-world opacity of the user-defined ink in the real-world printing method being targeted would be a truly useful feature.
Understand: This is not pie-in-the-sky. It can already be done (and commonly is) in Photoshop, because Photoshop correlates Channels to inks, and you can define as many additional channels as you want, and you can individually set their opacity. The onscreen display properly reflects the real-world opacity without wrecking the real-world separations.
So just think of a spot color Swatch as an additional user-defined process INK. Think of the various spot color Libraries as mere preset conveniences.
You could define a spot color Swatch named "Pantone 875" that looks purple on screen if you had some desire to do so. It would still print correctly so long as the printing house put Pantone 875 INK in the press--which is what they'll do if the separation plate says "Pantone 875"--which is what it will if you name the spot ink that way.
Also: Assuming you have the Adobe PDF virtual printer installed (which you probably do), to test your spot color separations you can simply invoke the Print dialog, select Adobe PDF as the "printer" and select Separations in the Output pane. The resulting PDF will contain one grayscale page for each INK.
JET

Can't Print this illustration

Okay, first time in donkey's years I've had this 'Can't Print the illustration' window - brand new CS5 suite, brand new computer - 4 days old (Dell, 36bit - would prefer a Mac but there you go).
History - large format packaging file - 600mm x 1200mm. Line drawings. Black and one spot (Pantone) color only. Job needed original English version converted to Chinese language. This had to be done on an older 'chinese' PC in Illustrator 4 with correct Chinese fonts. But after the translator did her job, I needed to return it to CS5 on the Dell to make alterations. Chinese fonts converted to outlines for transfer. Once alterations done, tried to print and got the silly can't print message.
prints fine from Dell in PDF format.
prints fine from Dell in jpeg format.
prints fine form old 'chinese' PC in Illustrator 4 format with either outlined fonts or fonts.
havent had any problems printing anything else in CS5, just this one job.
The only thing I can think of is that there was a problem when converting the Chinese font to outlines there were too many points created and either Illustrator or the printer cracked the irrites.
Any help on how I can work out how to fix this.
...although I have been using Macs/PC's and all Adobe programs for over 25 years I HATE trying to figure out this stuff and prefer to just be an end user without trying to figure out why a perfectly reasonable request goes odd.
thanks in advance.

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Could you share
Sadly, no. Files are copyright design sensitive - but thank you. I wonder if it is because they were originally CS4 files? hmmm. Not really sure. What I will have to do is recreate the same artwork or similar from start with the same brushes and fonts and see if that still causes a problem. I have yet to narrow down if the problem is coming from CS5 or from my printer and/or printer driver. I was assured it was all updated and compatible... but there you go.
If I can reproduce the problem with a 'generic' type art I will post it here for advice - you have all be very helpful already.
these things always happen when up upgrade everything all at once It is only Day 4 and overall I am happy with new CS5. just the printing issue is a pain.
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No black print on Illustrator CS2

Using Mac OS 10.6.2, Snow Leopard, Illustrator CS2 won't print black using either CMYK or RBG. The color is gray/blue. No problem when printing same on Photoshop CS2.

Thank you for your reply.
My printer is a Canon Pixma 610 which printed black Illustrator documents fine before I upgraded my Mac OS from Leopard to Snow Leopard.
I printed a selection using CMYK from Menu>File>Document Color Mode and the printing was gray with a touch of blue.
I printed a selection using RGB from Menu>File>Document Color Mode and the printing was gray with a touch of blue.
In "preferences for Appearance of Black" I used the default, "Display All Blacks as Rich Black", then after hearing from you, I tried switching to "Display All Blacks Accurately" with the same blue/grey print-out.
Any more suggestions?
Thank you,
Ronnie Rudolph

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Any help at all would be great.

I have same problem. if you got solution, please share with me.
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