Spot Colour Files

• When running with spot colors, remember to change your screen angles for each color.
As default, each spot color will image with the screen angle of black (45degrees). By changing the Screen value to cyan it will give the angles at least a 30% difference. If left unchanged each color angle will remain as black resulting in a moire pattern.(a motley screening effect.)

• Check that logos and photos are not CMYK, this will result in a job with 4 extra pieces of film. Try printed a test separation on your laser printer. Only the number of colors should print out.

• Ensure that the Pantone colors used in Quark and Illustrator are the same, eg. CV, CVP, CVU. These are three different colors and will result in extra film.