In Photoshop – any channel that is a Spot Color will print. The file starts off as an RGB file and then each color is “pulled” and/or created and made into what is called a Spot Color Alpha Channel. The following image is what a Channel Separation looks like in Photoshop.
Also, printers often make templates with registration marks, gray scales and other details that they “place” the separated image in before printing. And, if you want to add additional vector elements to a channel separation you can do so once you bring the file into your favorite vector program – as long as the elements you are adding are one of the Pantone colors used in your image. A lot of printers want to print from a program they are comfortable with.
If you know about the history/background and reasons to do this….you can jump ahead to just the section about how to print from your favorite vector program. People print from Photoshop all day long.
It is shocking to hear people tell us “Adobe said I needed to print from Illustrator.” Oh well. Note: If you don’t have a RIP but want to print from Photoshop you can cheat a little and the Convert to Halftone Dots button in T-Seps! More in following article.įor some reason a lot of people are told “you can’t print for Photoshop.” That is one of the biggest lies ever told and perpetuated by Adobe. T-Seps creates “channel” color separations in Adobe Photoshop. Channel separations can easily be printed out of Adobe Photoshop but they need to print to a RIP (raster image processor) like T-RIP in order to get halftone dots. Could someone explain to me how people are meant to work with this sort of thing happening.Printing Photoshop Channel Separations in AI or Corel Draw This sort of thing costs a great deal of time and money, especially as the auto-backup system is erratic at best. I've also checked the log on the computer of one of our designers. The first crash today happened when I ungrouped a simple logo (the LinkedIn logo as it happens), and the second was when I tried to change the colour of a single line of artistic text. Here is a screenshot taken from a program called AppCrashView which shows my CorelDraw crashes for the last 6 weeks. I'm not even a designer, i'm in charge of print production so 95% of the time all I am doing is opening a file and making a minor correction to files or correcting a spelling error. These crashes can occur at any time, sometimes when moving items, often when adjusting text, sometimes when I just move the mouse across the screen. Basically, this is becoming a major issue now and I wanted to demonstrate how bad this is. I've put messages on about this before and not got anywhere. You have to close the layout, then switch to printing multiple documents, then get back into layout to well, do the laying out. Opening print dialog from inside the layout window and changing to print multiple documents does nothing. If I create the layout, and close the layout window, then print from the print dialog, it prints every document as it should be.ģ) this one is old, it was introduced in Corel12 - in layout window set to print one document you cannot change to printing multiple documents. Problem is, when printing from preview window, Corel omits one document - the one opened/created most recently. Is there a way to get it back to normal behaviour?Ģ) We also use Corel to print those multiple documents, also at once, using layout to print contact sheets, booklets and whatnot.
This is a bit useless - I want to arrange windows so that I can look at all of them at one glance. Now it opens max 3 windows and creates as many tabs as needed to keep all open documents in those 3 windows.
When arranging windows, Corel used to, well, arrange windows. New to x7, sorry if these problems were adressed.ġ) We use Corel to work with multiple (very multiple, sometimes even megaple) documents at once.