Hi Corel help.......and I need help. I am using CorelDraw X3
I do tee-shirt art. I am in the process of doing a shirt and have used the mesh blend tool for the first time.
It is way cool to be able to drag and drop a color to blend. My question is I have an 8 color design in spot colors. I used the mesh blend tool pretty heavy on a car in the design and am very pleased with the effects.
But when I go to view the print seps. preview mode, I am not seeing the 3 colors I blended in the car.
The color comes up on the bottom of the page but the page is white. I am afraid that when I send my artwork to the printer he won't be able to seperate it.
I want to be able to view all the seperations but can't. Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance
earl
Hi, Earl, the mesh fill of X3 converts spot colors to CMYK. I'm not sure if you open your job in X4 it will be auto-updated
Ariel, I don't understand.
I don't have much call to use the Mesh tool that often but in X3 my sep page still shows spot colors.
What am I missing?
My sep page also shows the spot colors I used but when I click the print preview button at the bottom left to view the actual separations,
wherever I have use the mesh tool, that particular color won't show up on the separation pages...........
What you need to do is select every thing once you choose the mesh tool and change to spot colors, then select the nodes of mesh tool that you what to change to another spot color and change them. This will retain spot colors, if you make object spot colors first and then mesh tool they go to process colors!
Nope, not on my end.
In X3 I don't need to do anything "special". I just use spot colors with the mesh tool and spot colors come up in my sep plates.
Now I'm really confused.
Good morning all who helped me with my mesh tool deal.
I talked to my silk screen guy and he said my problem had nothing to do with the
mesh tool (shoulda listened Diane Jersey Girl.........sorry) But everything to do with the
printer. Different printers don't output the preview pages the same. So my artwork in ok.
The mesh tool is ok and now my world is ok! Thanks again to all those who responded!
Glad I regestered here!