[pearl2000]

i have an image thats a brown and black duotone. i want to print out separations of this so i can silkscreen. problem is that i cant find any way to do this on....corel, photoshop, illustrator, quark, and freehand. im not a newbie at graphic design, but this stumps me. please give me any advice ASAP and what program to work on it, thanks!

[derbs]

In Quark, there's a checkbox 'Separations' in the first screen of the Quark print dialog.

That will print the 2 separations, but they will be in black i think, not in the duotone colours.

[art_director]

Originally posted by derbs:
In Quark, there's a checkbox 'Separations' in the first screen of the Quark print dialog.

That will print the 2 separations, but they will be in black i think, not in the duotone colours.

Yes, they will be black but represent the seps.

[godzookie2k]

do it in photoshop by printing one channel at a time, iirc.

[pearl2000]

i cant even open up any documents in quark ....feel like a newbie, lol. as for photoshop, i think when its in duotone, its still only one channel.

[ghost_flash]

Originally posted by pearl2000:
i cant even open up any documents in quark ....feel like a newbie, lol. as for photoshop, i think when its in duotone, its still only one channel.

Use the color picker, seperate the colors by selection and layer.

If it is only two colors that should be easy.

[pearl2000]

how does quark realize thats its a duotone.,,,i think the way i did it, it recognizes it as a CMKY file because i went to print>output and it shows all 4 colors to be printed and at what angle. is there a way i can separate it NOT in the print box? thanks for all the quick replies!

[ultra-V]

To do it from Quark:
- Save your Photoshop duotone as EPS.
- Open Quark document, place Photoshop EPS file. Your spot color(s) should appear in the colors palette.
- Hit Print. In Document tab, click "Separations." In output tab, Plates should say "Process and Spot" and your spot color(s) should appear, toward the bottom of the list.
(NOTE: This requires a PostScript enabled printer. But then, I assume you're not burning your silkscreens from anything else.)

To print duotone channels from from Photoshop:
- Convert your duotone to "Multichannel" mode. This will give you separate channels for each that you can then print on their own.
(If you're doing a "straight" duotone with no custom curves for either color, the two channels will be the same.)

[Oceanic]

Make sure the screen angles are different for the 2 colors or the dots will end up on top of each other.

Phil