How to Map a Spot Color to Specialty Dry Ink on the Top Layer
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How to Map a Spot Color to Specialty Dry Ink GX Print Server for Iridesse Production Press Version 1.0 Overview This exercise will show the ability to output a spot color using specialty dry ink. This demonstration will use a function of the GX Print Server to map specified spot colors to specialty dry ink, positioning the ink on either the bottom/top layer of the paper. Objective By the end of this exercise users will be able to: • Find the location of the setting on the GX Print Server • Specify a spot color that will be mapped to specialty dry ink BEFORE AFTER Spot color “PANTONE 145 C” Map to Gold Map to Silver Map specified spot color Job including spot color to specialty dry ink 1 Configuration of the Job Properties Please note, this How To document is part of a set. If you cannot complete some of the following steps please refer to the other reference documents. i.e “Open the Job Properties” is further explained in the “How to import a job.pdf”. Go to: http://m1-onlinesupport.fujixerox.com/driver_downloads/OTS/OTS_gxprintserver_iridesse_EN.html 1. Open the Job Properties and select [Advanced Settings] > [Specialty Dry Ink]. Then, enable [Use Specialty Dry Ink] and click [OK]. 2. Select [Top Layer] from the side panel and enable [Map to Spot Color(s)]. Then, click [Edit]. 2 3. Click [Select] in the Edit Spot Color window. 4. Select [Pantone+ Solid Coated-V3] as [Select Categories], and select [PANTONE 145 C]. Then click [OK]. 5. Select [Add], the selected spot color is added into the list. Click [OK] to close the window. 3 6. Selected spot color is added as [Map to Spot Color(s)]. Click [Print] to print. You can skip step 3 - 5 by typing the name of the spot color directly in the window. This demonstration showed how to map a spot color to specialty dry ink on the top layer. The specified spot color is then printed as over-print with specialty dry ink installed in engine #1 at the printer. If you configure the spot color as the [Bottom Layer] within Job Properties, it is printed as under-print when specialty dry ink is installed at the engine #6 location. #6 K C M Y #1 Top Layer CMYK layer Bottom Layer Paper Congratulations you have now completed this exercise. 4.