separations on A2 sheets from either indesign or acrobat

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October 1, 2019
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Before printing to a risograph i need to manually separate colors. Easy peasy you'd think, but no. I'm using mac (and the students I'm teaching mostly uses mac) and Riso have no driver to their A2printer for mac.

So ok, let's use Acrobat, and create a pdf, but mac does not allow pdf-printers to be installed so I cant use the easy to use separation-function in the advanced mode of Acrobat print.

So ok, let's use Indesign print to file (making a ps file that i can distill to pdf). Sweet. No probs. Other than that I'm limited to the page sizes of whatever printer I have installed, none of which have A2 as an option and custom won't allow me to exceed said printers page size limit even tho I'm not ACTUALLY printing on it, just producing a file. And I cant have the riso driver. And i can't have the pdf-printer driver. I'm stuck.

What I want: CMYK (+ spot-color) separated pages on A2 paper produced from either Indesign directly or via a pdf in Acrobat, all done on a Mac. Can anyone help, is there a workaround that I don't see?

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rob day

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Can anyone help, is there a workaround that I don't see?

To directly print separations the printer it has to be postscript. To save and distill postscript separations with a custom page size you'll need to install the Adobe PDF 9.0 PPD. See https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/save-as-pdf-options-not.html

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Donna3845556753mp

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Hi This seems to be a problem I am having with a TAFE assessment at the moment. I have saved my illustrator poster to a pdf file and now I have to colour seperate the artwork. I follow similar steps to this and when I get to output mode compositions and seperations hot based come up but not In rip seperations which is the steps I need. I have not a clue what I am doing and need help. I have obviously done something wrong or its my computer or software, I have all my programs updated so I am clueless right now. I am on an older computer windows 10, illustrator and adobe are up to date any suggestions would be great, I have even reinstalled my printer software to no avail. I did note when I went to output and put in print preset is custom, printer I selected post script file and where it says ppD my printer doesnt show for some reason just device independant or other when I click on other it goes to the desktop for some reason.