Spot color not printing spot color

[Jharris81]

So I want to print a sticker with just black, so I made sure that the graphic in illustrator was BK21A which is 100% K. Even shows up that way in Versaworks as the spot color but under magnification I can sure see magenta around the edges. I haven't worked to much with spot colors because I haven't really had to but is there something I need to change to make this happen. It's a very small graphic so I just wanted to do 100% K so I didn't have to worry about the head lining up just perfect. I am printing with max density profile.

 

[damonCA21]

it is probably down to your profile settings in versaworks. You can change this to density control only and it will print just using the black head without applying a profile to it

 

[Jharris81]

I know you can do this with density control but I figured if I used “black” BK21A it would but down just black in. Thought that was the whole point of spot colors.

 

[damonCA21]

In theory yes but sometimes weird things can happen when you export the file from illustrator and it changes it!