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- [Voiceover] In this movie, I'll show you



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how to export color separatoins.



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And again, this is something

that you might do if you're



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handing off the file to

a commercial print house.



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And, the idea is that you

want an independent separation



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for each and every ink.



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So, in my case, I've got

three ink job right here.



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Three spot colors in all.



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I'm going to need a total

of three separations.



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And, to create those, I'll

go up to the File menu,



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and once again choose the Print command.



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Or, you can press "Control+P"

or "Command+P" on the Mac.



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Any time that you want to

send a job out to a commercial



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printer, you want to set

the printer to Adobe PDF



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as opposed to some local printer.



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And then you want the medium

size to be set to custom.



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Now, if you end up with

something like this where the



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page size is a little

bigger than the artwork



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then you can switch it back

so that it's exactly the same



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size as the art by switching

to a different page size.



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I'll just go ahead and choose A4.



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And then you want to scroll up the list to



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custom and choose it

and that will go ahead



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and scale the paper size so that it



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exactly matches the art board.



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Now, we need a little bit of extra room



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for the printer marks.



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So, I'm gonna add a hundred to

both the width and the height



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values here just by entering plus 100.



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We'll end up with this effect here.



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Alright, now I'll go ahead

and switch to Marks and Bleeds



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and I'll turn on all printer marks.



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And this is generally a great

idea any time you are going



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to send a job to a commerical print house.



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All right, now I'm going

to take the offset value up



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to 18 points, let's say,

and we don't need a bleed.



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Notice my document bleed

settings are set to zero.



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That's because I'm not

printing to the edge



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of the art board.



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Alright, wow what you want

to do is move onto output.



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So, go ahead and click on

output in the left hand list.



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This time, we are looking

for separations host based



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which means that Illustrator's

going to generate



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the separations for us.



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If we didn't want separations

we'd go with composite,



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by the way, which is what we

saw in the previous movie.



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That's where you just go ahead and export



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a full color version of your artwork.



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But as I say, we want separations.



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So, go ahead and choose

separations host based.



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If you happen to know the

resolution of your printer you



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should go ahead and choose it here.



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I'm gonna go with 1200

dpi, that's dots per inch.



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And now, notice the first

value reads 100 lpi.



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That's line per inch,

incidentally, and it indicates the



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number of half tone dots per linear inch.



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So, the first number is half

tone dots, lines per inch,



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and the second number

is resolution which is



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measured in dots per inch.



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Alright, now you want

to make sure to covert



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All Spot Colors to

Processes is turned off.



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We specifically for this

example want to print



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spot colors and nothing more.



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Then, you can turn on

overprint black if you want to.



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What that's gonna do is

overprint the black ink



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as opposed to the pantone black.



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So in our case is really

not gonna do us any good



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because as you can see here

process cyan, magenta, yellow,



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and black go unused

which is why they don't



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have little printers

marks in front of them.



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But, if for some reason

you decide you wanted



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to override that you can

click in this column,



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to force the output for

example, of the cyan separation.



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That's not what I want, however,



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so I'll go ahead and turn that off.



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And somehow, I managed to

accidentally not select



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the resolution value there.



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So, I'll go ahead and choose it.



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Now, notice that we're

seeing frequency which is the



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number of half tone dots per linear inch.



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It's set to 100 lpi.



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Here's the problem though,

I want you to see this.



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Notice that by default

process cyan is gonna print



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at 15 degress, process magenta

is gonna print at 75 degrees,



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yellow's gonna be at zero degrees



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because you can barely

see it, it's so light.



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And then, black is going

to be at 45 degrees.



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Now, the idea here is that

whenever you have half tone dots,



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you need to vary the angle of those dots



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on a separation by separation basis.



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Because if you don't, if

they're all the same angle



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then they're not gonna

mingle together properly.



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Compare this to my spot colors right here



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which are all set to 45 degrees.



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Now, that would be great



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if everything in this

document was a solid color.



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However, I've got half tone dots going on,



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in the form of these gradients right here.



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So, any place where I

have soft transitions,



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that is going to turn

into a half tone pattern.



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So, what I need to do

is modify these values.



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The best way to work generally speaking,



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the most brain-dead thing to

do is just take a cue from



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the cyan, magenta, yellow

and black values right there.



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So notice cyan is set to 15 degrees,



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magenta is set to 75 degrees,

and so what I'm gonna do



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is I'm going to change

the angle of pantone to 85



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which is that shade of blue.



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I'm going to change it to 15 degrees.



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And then I'm going to change

the angle of pantone 325,



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which is that shade of

green, to 75 degrees.



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And I'll leave the angle

of black set to 45 degrees.



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And now I'll go ahead and

click on the print button



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once again and then I would

save the file as this guy



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right here Logo Separations,

which again I've created in



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advanced so I'll just go

ahead and cancel out here.



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I'll switch over to Acrobat Pro,



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and you see that we now have

a total of three separations.



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One for pantone 285, which

is that shade of blue.



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Another for pantone 325

which is that blueish green.



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And then a final one

for pantone black six.



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Now, you might look at these and say



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well, why in the world

do they all appear black?



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And that's because it's up to

the printer to add the color.



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Your separations are always

going to appear black where you



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have ink, and white where you don't.



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And one more thing I

want you to note here,



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I'll go ahead and press

"Control+" a bunch of times,



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that's "Command+" on the Mac.



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And notice we're looking at

the original document name.



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It's got a screen

frequency of a hundred lpi,



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that's lines per inch, 15

degrees was going to be the



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angle of the half tones dots.



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Here's the date and the time,



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and here's the color

right there, pantone 285.



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And so if I were to

advance to the next page,



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you'll see that the color

name scoots over to the right



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and changes to pantone

325, and then if I advance



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to the final page, it

reads pantone black six.



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And then the great thing is

once the ink is actually added



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and you print this

document, you're gonna see



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all three of these

separations next to each other



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printed in the color

of that particular ink.



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And that's how you export

color separations as a PDF file



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using Adobe Illustrator.