Hi Corel help.......and I need help. I am using CorelDraw X3
I do tee-shirt art. I am in the process of doing a shirt and have used the mesh blend tool for the first time.
It is way cool to be able to drag and drop a color to blend. My question is I have an 8 color design in spot colors. I used the mesh blend tool pretty heavy on a car in the design and am very pleased with the effects.
But when I go to view the print seps. preview mode, I am not seeing the 3 colors I blended in the car.
The color comes up on the bottom of the page but the page is white. I am afraid that when I send my artwork to the printer he won't be able to seperate it.
I want to be able to view all the seperations but can't. Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance
earl
Sounds like you forgot to check the little box that says "Print Separations"....in the sep dialog box.
Hi, Earl, the mesh fill of X3 converts spot colors to CMYK. I'm not sure if you open your job in X4 it will be auto-updated
Ariel Garaza Díaz
arielgaraza.com
Hi Ariel,
Not sure I understand what you mean by auto updated.
Do you mean I will be able to see the seps. in my original spot colors using X4?
Thanks
If you use Pantone Colors in mesh fill with X4, CorelDRAW does not convert to CMYK, but I'm not sure that if you open with X4 a mesh fill created withe X3, the program correct the color conversion, or maintain as CMYK colors
Ariel,
Thanks for your quick response, you have helped me understand a great deal.
I will try opening it up in X4 and see what happens............many thanks again
Ariel, I don't understand.
I don't have much call to use the Mesh tool that often but in X3 my sep page still shows spot colors.
What am I missing?
My sep page also shows the spot colors I used but when I click the print preview button at the bottom left to view the actual separations,
wherever I have use the mesh tool, that particular color won't show up on the separation pages...........
What you need to do is select every thing once you choose the mesh tool and change to spot colors, then select the nodes of mesh tool that you what to change to another spot color and change them. This will retain spot colors, if you make object spot colors first and then mesh tool they go to process colors!
Nope, not on my end.
In X3 I don't need to do anything "special". I just use spot colors with the mesh tool and spot colors come up in my sep plates.
Now I'm really confused.
Not sure I understand....but I went and went into the printer and click on separations tab and click on print separations,
then print preview and left it in the "As in Document" and bingo I can see everything in the separations even the stuff I used the mesh tool on.
But my art is 16" X 18" so I hit the little drop down window to "Fit to page" so I can see everything and I lose all of my mesh tool stuff on the seps.
I have always done this in the past as far as "Fit to page" and have never seen this before.
Here is what I am trying to show, top is the art , bottom left is viewed "As in Document"
Bottom right is viewed in "Fit to Page"........don't know why I can view one way and not the other.
Good morning all who helped me with my mesh tool deal.
I talked to my silk screen guy and he said my problem had nothing to do with the
mesh tool (shoulda listened Diane Jersey Girl.........sorry) But everything to do with the
printer. Different printers don't output the preview pages the same. So my artwork in ok.
The mesh tool is ok and now my world is ok! Thanks again to all those who responded!
Glad I regestered here!
Earl Kendall:Do you mean I will be able to see the seps. in my original spot colors using X4?
This movie shows a demo for a commercial macro BUT also covers some basic concepts about how spot colors and CMYK separate differently.
Jeff Harrison MacroMonster.com Daily Diversion Blog