Wrong Colours in Illustrator

[Custom-Pixels]

Hi,

new to the world of printing,I am designing some bar mat's and upon exporting to EPS using Corel Draw,then sent to the printer which uses Illustrator,the EPS colours are all messed up,and almost grey scale? my corel draw artwork is all in CMYK.

Could I email the files to somebody to take a look for me please?

Regards,Ben

[Audentia]

Hi Ben,
Welcome to the forum!

Are you sure there are no spot colours in there?
I am not very familiar with Corel as I use Illustrator (we call it Illy here) but perhaps there is a colour conversion option when you make the .eps that is changing things?

[Custom-Pixels]

Hi,


Thanks for the welcome,I'll be honest here...I don't even know what spot color's are.:confused:

The EPS file open up fine if I open it with corel again,but it's messed up if I open it will Illy.

Thanks,

[Kool]

Try exporting as an AI file and then save as EPS from Illy. I've had much better luck doing it that way in the past.

[PrintDriver]

Sounds like an embedded profile problem.
Do you get any kind of profile mismatch error when opening in Illy?

You do know the printer is not going to be able to match the colors you see on your monitor, right?

[Custom-Pixels]

Hi,


exporting from corel as AI gives the same results,however if I export as an Enhanced Meta File it opens up ok into Illy,and from there I can save as whatever.

Yeah I understand they won't be as bright once printed,how do I get around that? the artwork is designed in CMYK.

Regards,Ben

[PrintDriver]

You don't 'get around' the fact that CMYK colors are not as vibrant as your RGB monitor. In fact, your print may look nothing like your monitor if you don't have a calibrated monitor. Even if you did, it may still only be close. Mostly.

If you don't know what Spot colors are or how they convert to Process colors and what they will look like, or how you might compensate for that to some extent but not totally...well...hmmm...aahhh.........

All I can say is, be sure you get a proof.

I'm not even going to venture to guess what a MetaFile conversion just did to your file. (windows Metafiles are RGB color spaces, you've mangled any gradients you may have made into uneditable piles of polygons and you may have inappropriately flattened any transparency you may have used.)

[Custom-Pixels]

so how do I make sure the file will print pretty close to what I have on screen?

Thanks,Ben

[CkretAjint]

Calibrate your screen.

[Custom-Pixels]

a little more help please? calibrate it how?

[PrintDriver]

Check this (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Monitor+Calibration)