need help with transparencies

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I'm having a bit of trouble with a file I am trying to print. There is a drop shadow going over some stripes and I am trying to cut as one piece on reflective. When I bring into the rip the contour cut lines are not transfering over correctly, they show up as white lines. (illustrator, versa works, roland xj540) this has happened in the past and I've had to flaten transparencies and/or move the cut line onto its own layer on top. My problem is I can't seem to flatten the shadow without getting weird stuff going on. Any thoughts or ideas to help is much appreciated.

 

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here is what im working on with all my bleeds

 

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close up

 

[J Hill Designs]

what happens when its flattened?

 

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well i can flatten just the shadow and all looks good but when i save i get the warning that says document contains artwork that requires flattening and when opened in vw the cut lines are replaced by white lines... ive tried flattening the whole thing and just somethings while messing with perserving alpha and overprints... and it seems to mess up the file the shadow starts getting lost in spots and going places its not supposed to go

 

[HaroldDesign]

Try expanding appearance of the drop shadow before flattening

 

[J Hill Designs]

pull it into photoshop, rasterize, pull back into illy, repaste cutline, resend?

 

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the drop shadow isn't an effect or its already a vector... i was think about bringing to photoshop but I dont do alot of work in photoshop and i don't wanna loose the quailty of the colors

 

[J Hill Designs]

the drop shadow cant be vector...

edit: oh i see. its not like a shadow its a second set of letters opaquing up the bkgd a bit...

 

[HaroldDesign]

I've run into odd ones that saving as a pdf press quality file resolves things.

 

[HaroldDesign]

the drop shadow cant be vector...

edit: oh i see. its not like a shadow its a second set of letters opaquing up the bkgd a bit...

Looks like it could be various gradients used with transparency/opacity.

 

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sorry it is a "drop shadow"

 

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haha ever now and then this happens but i can usally figure it out but ive been fight this one since around 10 this morning

 

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harold wins

 

[rjssigns]

Save as PDF and this is important.Use Acrobat 4(1.3)
Click Advanced under options
Where it says Overprint and Transparency Flattener options click on Custom
You'll get a pop-up
Un-check convert all strokes to outlines.

There is a vid on Youtube that explains this in fine detail

Cheers.

 

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thank you

 

[mike monte]

transparency issues with Illustrator