- SEPARATION STUDIO COREL DRAW X4 MANUAL
- SEPARATION STUDIO COREL DRAW X4 REGISTRATION
- SEPARATION STUDIO COREL DRAW X4 SOFTWARE
Make your own custom targets and assign them a color of “Registration Color”.
SEPARATION STUDIO COREL DRAW X4 REGISTRATION
The “stock” registration targets in all programs are generally too small and you don’t have any control over their placement. What looks great on the monitor will look much darker when screen printed. You need to allow for this by using a lower percentage tint in shading areas so when it is printed it will look correct. When you print a halftone dot, it will grow in size 30% to 50%. If using halftone dots or tints of color in an image, when output, these areas are made up of small dots called halftones.
Trapping happens in the rip during out put.
SEPARATION STUDIO COREL DRAW X4 SOFTWARE
In order to have a trap print out of Corel correctly you need a printer with postscript or a software rip. If you gave the text a six point outline then the trap will be 3 points. I will cover this in detail in a future article but for now, it is as simple as selecting and object and holding down the right mouse and selecting “overprint object”. Figure 2Ī trap is generally done by adding an outline/stroke to undercolors (other than black) to make them slightly fatter.
If you spend time adding traps, images will appear to be in register when they are not. A trap can be as small as 2 points for shops that can hold tight registration, or as big as 6 points for simple images on low-end equipment. Trapping is the overlapping of darker colors (like black) on top of undercolors. If your “films” are output on a laser printer, they many never line up. When printing spot colors, any out of registration will show up as gaps between colors. The funny thing about printing shirts is that sometimes spot color images where colors touch colors are often HARDER to print than photo realistic images made up of halftone dots. Vector based programs like Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia Freehand are generally used for spot color images or images with a hard edge and more of a cartoon look. Others are just good nuts-and-bolts suggestions that can make or break a set of seps.
SEPARATION STUDIO COREL DRAW X4 MANUAL
In order to fit this in the allotted space, many tips are brief suggestions that will require referring back to your software manual to figure out. This article lists a few quick tips for better separations and art output which leads to better prints. – but it all starts with color separations. Yes, yes, you need to use properly tensioned screens, good press setup, proper ink viscosity, etc. As you become a better printer, it doesn’t take long to learn that in most cases if the separations are done correctly, the print looks great. Over the years I have learned that one of the major secrets to good screen printing is good color separations.
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