Using spot color with fountain

[autoexebat]

For the last few months I have been trying to figure this out , but it's been too busy to post .

I'm trying to use the Red Spot color is a fountain fill and it's not looking the best at all .

I am using X7 .

If I can't use a spot color with a fountain fill , how can I get the same red ? This is driving me nuts .

I attached a picture that will sum things up.

 

[CanuckSigns]

I'm not 100% sure this will work with a fountain fill, but can you send it over to versaworks as CMYK, then use the "special color settings" to output the CMYK as your desired spot colour? i know it works great on solid colour fills, but i've never tried it on gradients.

 

[knucklehead]

Try printing it straight out of Corel, and see what it does?

 

[J Hill Designs]

solid red fill shaped
black to transparent gradient on top

 

[shoresigns]

solid red fill shaped
black to transparent gradient on top

That doesn't work. Read the original post - he's working in CMYK so even with a transparency, K100 to spot colour red is not going to look right. It'll work fine in RGB though, so that's one solution.

In either case I don't think you should be using a spot colour with gradients and transparencies. Too unpredictable. Sounds like a problem with your media profile - are you using the canned Roland profiles?

 

[J Hill Designs]

That doesn't work. Read the original post - he's working in CMYK so even with a transparency, K100 to spot colour red is not going to look right. It'll work fine in RGB though, so that's one solution.

In either case I don't think you should be using a spot colour with gradients and transparencies. Too unpredictable. Sounds like a problem with your media profile - are you using the canned Roland profiles?

see attached.
top is gradient PMS200 to 100%K
bottom is (bottom layer object solid PMS200)(top layer object is solid 100%K, with linear transparency, object set to 'multiply') - I offset the objects a tad to see the 2 different ones

edit: but I agree, transparency over spot (or spots used in a gradient) is always going to be an issue

 

[autoexebat]

Yeah I gave up on this a while back , Red has always been an issue

 

[iraney]

Don't make your red ( C:0% M:100% Y:100% K:0%) reds should always be (C:5% M:100% Y:90% K:5%) should give you a nice red and if your doing a gradient to black add some color to the black as in a gradient from a red to black convert your spot color to a cmyk value and take those values and aply it to the black keeping your black value at 100% as in (C:5% M:100% Y:90% K:100%). So my gradient would be from Red (C:5% M:100% Y:90% K:5%) to black (C:5% M:100% Y:90% K:100%). This goes for all gradients from a color to black to get a smooth color gradation in CMYK this should work in all programs also.