How do I separate my artwork into different colors on different artboards for digital foil printing?

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October 17, 2024
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Friends,

I want to take advantage of StationeryHQ's new elevated ink wrapping paper option, but I am getting stuck on the directions, as seen HERE.

Mainly, I don't know how to do step 3:

Step 3: Prepare Artboard and Layers

Create a new artboard that represents each of your 5 channels. You'll have one artboard for each channel.
Place the artwork for each channel on its respective artboard.
Organize your layers so that each artboard contains only the artwork for its specific channel.

I am trying to create wrapping paper with elevated ink elements. I am starting with a pattern block, then filling the full size artboard with a fill of that pattern. I'm supposed to make an artboard for each spot color channel. I don't know how to separate the colors so that each artboard only has one of the colors. Or is that even what the directions are asking me to do???

I have attached a sample pdf showing the artwork. The elements in black are what should eventually be a gold elevated ink.

I would really appreciate any tips or guidance on this!

Thank you!

Elevated_Ink_Sample.pdf

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Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

But be carefull, with whatever method you use, you will risk that, unless the printing is done very carefully, you can see tiny gaps between the colors. The artwork is not trapped and when the paper shifts slightly during printing the various colours, these gaps will appear. That can happen with traditional printing methods, other printing techniques do not have that problem. Ask the printer company if the artwork needs trapping.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Another way to create separate plates for your artwork is to prints separations.

You can create separations by printing to a PostScript file and use the Distiller PPD

In the Illustrator Print dialog choose: Printer > Adobe PostScript File.

For PPD select: Other and choose the Distiller PPD: ADPDF9.PPD

Then you are able to select: Mode > Separations (Host Based) in the Output tab.

You can save the PostScript file and use the Acrobat Distiller to create the separated PDF.

But...

It will be a grayscale document that does not contain halftone dots, your printer needs to support printing halftone dots if you want to print anything else than flat solid colors.

The direct download for the PPD:

https://helpx.adobe.com/content/dam/kb/en/852/cpsid_85257/attachments/ADPDF9.zip