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How to save 5-colour project in Illustrator ?
I've designed a brochure, which I want to print CMYK + Gold (5-colour) on the cover for. I have to send the artwork as PDF or JPG to the printers and I need to know:
A) Which spot colour I can select for Gold
B) How to save the file correctly to preserve the Spot colour (e.g. if i rasterize and save as JPG would it preserve the Gold??)
2 Answers
- ઈтєllyLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
A. = Go to your Swatches and open up the Pantone Metallic coated library. Chose the Gold Spot color.
B. No, you can't save it as a jpg file. See if the printer has a website to upload art files at. If they do, save it as an eps file. If they don't and you have to save it as a pdf file, talk to the printer and find out what they would recommend.
- Tim DLv 71 decade ago
There are a number of different golds in the Pantone library (Window > Swatch Libraries > Colour Books > Pantone Metallic Coated) these are the standards that most printers work to, although there are others – look at a Pantone swatch book to choose the right colour – screen representations of metallic colours are not good.
Save the file as a pdf, use the Press Quality default setting in the drop down menu, then open the file in Acrobat and run a preflight on it (Advanced > Preflight > PDF Analysis > Document generates more than four plates) this will tell you how many plates you are using. Check with the printer on the marks he wants (trim crop etc) and the amount of bleed required.
