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TICKET ARCHIVE -> Pantone Colors won't print. Quark Xpress

robinndan - Aug 8, 2006 - 10:18 am

When I select certain Pantone colors and try to print separations from Quark, they won't print. If I go back and change them to, let's just say cyan, it works, why?

Natobasso - Aug 8, 2006 - 12:56 pm

Howdy! Have you created a pdf with all your quark plates in it? If you don't tell Quark to save your pantones it converts them to cmyk.

Make sure your export to pdf preferences show your pantone colors (you can test this when you export a pdf by looking at Separation Preview).

Let me know if this helps.

robinndan - Aug 9, 2006 - 8:11 am

I just want to print to an imagesetter in spot colors, I'm not making PDF.
Dan

robinndan - Aug 9, 2006 - 9:20 am

No, real simple straight forward typesetting, very basic stuff.

Natobasso - Aug 10, 2006 - 7:29 am

Did you try what I suggested?

robinndan - Aug 11, 2006 - 6:15 am

I guess I'm not sure why you want me to do it, I will though.
Dan

Natobasso - Aug 11, 2006 - 7:20 am

(because it's the answer to your question, silly!)

Natobasso - Aug 11, 2006 - 7:36 am

Unless you tell quark to print separations, as I mentioned in my post, then you will not print separations. Cyan prints because it's part of quark's CMYK default printing.