Spot colors

[A Sign Company]

I'm trying to migrate away from Illustrator and have used the trial version of designer. I own a Roland digital printer. To have my machine print and contour cut out the graphic file, I need to create a spot color of 100% magenta and give that color a specific name. The print program sees this as the contour cutting line. When I save the Designer file as an EPS file, the roland software does NOT read this cut line. If I open the EPS in Illustrator, that magenta spot color has changed to 99% magenta and 1% cyan, yet the name remains. Therefore it doesn't recognize the cut line. it must stay at 100% magenta. If I save the same file as an PDF, then my machine will read the cut contour line properly. I prefer not to do this since PDF color profile files, especially ones containing photos, are not as accurate as EPS  color profile files. Plus I have some issues with the print software if I want, for example, to add some black to red (100,100) for a stronger color output. If there a fix to this so I can save my work as EPS files. Otherwise I'm thinking this flaw is only one of several in Designer which may keep me from migrating over and dumping Adobe.

[firstdefence]

Welcome to the forum @A Sign Company

Just to start the ball rolling, what export settings are you using for EPS export, take a look at the more section as well, are you allowing jpeg compression etc?

If I export to eps I can open the file in Illustrator and the colour maintains 100% magenta.

 

Cut Line.eps

[lacerto]

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[A Sign Company]

for firstdefense = I did have the compression on at first, removed it and it still change the named spot color.  For lagarto - thanks, I was afraid of that response. Unfortunately, I have used my trial period up so I can't try more tests. $50, is fair, but I don't need to purchase something that doesn't create a good work flow for me. - thanks all