Can't convert colours to CMYK in Illustrator

[denisen24697984]

Hi,

Wondered if anyone coloud help me with this?

I have a file that I have had printed for a car wrap and part of the design has two rows of a square shape in it.

The doc colour mode is in CMYK mode and the colour window is showing the CMYK sliders for both rows of the squares. Both of these rows of squares have the identical CMYK values.

When you look at the squares on the screen however you can see the first row is a more blue green that the second row and they have printed this way also.

When I select any of them and go to Edit - Edit Colours, Convert to RGB is greyed out so it is obviously what they are set to,. When I click Convert to CMYK, the next time I go to Edit - Edit colours it is back to greying out Convert to RGB, even if I save the doc straight after I do it.

I now need to print the file again for another car wrap and I dont know how to fix this problem!

Thanks in advance.

[Monika Gause]

When your document color mode is CMYK, then your process swatches are also CMYK.

Please show us a screenshot and a photo of the print that displays the issue.

The screenshot should include the layers panel.

problem object selected, appearance window open.

[denisen24697984]

Hi Monika, thanks so much for your reply, I realised the problem was one row of squares was selected as multiply in opacity where as the others were regular opacity when I looked in the appearance panel.

Think that's solved my problem, but I still don't get why the flle is showing CMYK but then in "edit colours' looks like its in RGB? Maybe I'm being stupid here?

[Monika Gause]

This is for converting Greyscale or spot colors.

You can use it if you want to convert multiple spot colors at once into the document color mode.

If you want to convert only one, you can just change it in the color panel.

ALso: the commands in the "Edit" menu can be incorporated into Actions.