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Hi, so I'm at a print shop in Perth, our old graphic designer has left, and left us with a pickle.
We have a couple of digital printers here; we use a Fuji Xerox 5065 II for our main daily stuff.
We also print NCR books as a spot colour process on our Riso machine.
We are trying to print a hard copy of a client’s artwork on our 5065 that has a colour screen? (Sorry I’m not sure what the correct term is)
So that the colours show up as dots on the page and can be separated on our Riso?
I've looked into changing the DPI on an image, but this is an overall effect. Our old graphic designer somehow managed to have only the color sections of the page show up as dots and not the rest.
When I say dots, it's like the DPI on that part of the page is less than the rest so that it's clear to the naked eye that the image is made of larger dots?
Is there a way in Indesign, or any Adobe program or that matter on the 5065 if anyone knows the machine that I can adjust or create this setting?
I'm sorry for my naive wording on the matter, any help is appreciated.

Ok,
sorry for the confusion, like I say, this is the first time I've had to deal with the situation.
So......
if say you have a logo that has a text box, and the background of the text box is a solid colour.
if we put that logo through our Riso machine, it can't seperate the text from the background block, and so just prints it as a large coloured block.
Now, our old graphic artist, used to do this thing where he would take the text box or solid shape and he would change it from being a solid colour to being dots. like he changed the dpi but the dots were large enough to see with the naked eye.
this way when we put it through the Riso machine, it could seperate the text from infront of the coloured box and would print them both. The box would still be dotty but on the Riso it would look fine.
Hope this makes more sense, if not I'll take some scans when i get back into work on Monday.
Cheers in advance.

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