Nazario Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 We print 4 colour on a 2 colour litho press and so need to be able to separate the plates. How can I do this in Publisher? EDIT: Just seen another post regarding this. Apologies for duplicate post. Separations preview and the option to print only certain plates is a must for me to be able to use Publisher. SimonF 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hankscorpio Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 You still can. Export to Pdf and make plates from that. Thats a pretty standard workflow. Colour seps for the programme is essential though. Id prefer to know that its all setup correctly before making pdf SimonF 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nazario Posted September 18, 2018 Author Share Posted September 18, 2018 Can you explain how you would go about doing that? We print directly to the rip and its much more efficient to separate at the time of sending the file instead of exporting as a PDF then having to separate from there. Also we are trying to get away from Adobe so having to have a copy of Acrobat just to separate the plates is quite excessive. If you would be so kind as to explain how you separate from a PDF I will look into it. We have always printed directly from artwork to the RIP as we print in house. We have found PDFs just cause issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac_heibu Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 Load the PDF into Acrobat, and use the settings to export it as separated Postscript. Nazario 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hankscorpio Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 I dont know what rip you are using. But if your goal is to get away from adobe then i really cant help as im not familiar with a non pdf workflow or non pdf centric workflows. I do know creating postscript etc is stripping the file of goodness like live transparencies and icc colour profiles JoeriVC 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac_heibu Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 The original poster wants a separated file. And a separate file has no transparency and no colour profile. This is already „pre-calculated“ into the .ps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eugene Tyson Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 I'd need to know more about the RIP and more about the workflow to offer any advice. A separated file is different to separate plates. The RIP calculates all the information and outputs plates based on this. What software are you printing from directly to a RIP? How are PDFs causing problems? I'm suprised a litho printers is not using a PdF centric workflow. And HankScorpio is me - when I'm on mobile it posts with that name as it was my original signed up name here - but reverts back to my old name when on my phone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nazario Posted September 19, 2018 Author Share Posted September 19, 2018 Hi Guys. We print directly from InDesign using our RIPs PPD file. From InDesign print dialogue we can choose which plates to send to the RIP. When we send a four colour document the rip receives/creates a plate for each colour. The plate is produced on our plate maker and manually put onto our litho printer and off you go. Theres no need for us to create PDFs. The RIP has a hold queue and when we are ready to create the plates we then send them from the rip software to the plate maker (just like sending a file to print). osang and Sonofwitz 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osang Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 +1 for Color Separation preview. I'm also using computer-to-plate printing. SimonF and Sonofwitz 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stmartin Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 +1 for color separation preview. Sonofwitz 1 Quote iMac 27" with macOS Mojave (German) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sullyman Posted December 21, 2018 Share Posted December 21, 2018 +1 Quote My portfolio | Youtube Channel: Pixel Moshpit | Email: john@johndrawsfor.me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGD Posted December 21, 2018 Share Posted December 21, 2018 +1 for colour separation preview here too. And since there's a lot of code shared across Affinity apps, please make it available in Affinity Designer as well (maybe also even in Photo? Can you do duotone/indexed colour documents in Photo already? If so, separation preview might make some sense there as well)… While it's not as critical an omission, it can still be very useful in some projects and shouldn't add too much bloat. Also, it might allow us to no longer depend on Acrobat Pro; in fact, if we could just reimport printing press .PDF rips in Publisher without doing any colour conversion shenanigans and just check them in there, that would be golden. Sullyman, mackleys, SimonF and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigStef Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 +1 for color separation preview... My goal is to eliminate any Adoabe product from my computer. The last one I still need today is Acrobat Pro to check PDF before sending them to my printer. Peejee, SrPx and Alexis 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emet Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 I don't have much to add, just that I also need colour separation. Currently I use indesign to visually check the separations AND to send the print job. I do not like at all the way acrobat pro handles sending the print job. It does not seem to properly remember settings and you have to be really careful every time. Indesign is great in that way. I place print ready pdfs in indesign and print from there, so far it is the best workflow for my need. Even scribus has some ability to preview separations and print them. Other than that I am very impressed with Affinity publisher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Etnmarchand Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 (edited) +1 for outputting color separations. Also note the trapping options in the image above. That particular Adobe print dialog box is critical for my shop work flow. Cannot 100% dump adobe without this kind of output control from Affinity. EDIT: This is probably the #1 feature needed for my own work flow. I have been VERY impressed by the Affinity Suite and it can *almost* replace Adobe for me. Looking forward to the day I can say it 100% replaces Adobe in my shop! Edited December 4, 2020 by Etnmarchand Add emphasis to my desire for this feature Alexis and Karen12345 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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