Spot colors converting to cmyk

[Shannon]

Hello,

I am using Quark 6.5 and am working with a 2 color job that was sent to me.
I use the agfa apogee 3 system and need to convert these pages to PDF.

The problem I am having is where 2 spot colors blen together. The colors are being converted into process colors. Also I have some tiff files that are black that have a spot color selected in quark that also convert to process.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank You

[Broacher]

I'm a little fuzzy on your details -- and very fuzzy on the capabilities of Quark 6.5.

Here's a few Q's I have:
- where the spots blend: is that done with native Quark gradients, or is it an imported EPS where this is happening?
- TIFF files that are black: is that a 1 bit (bitmap) TIFF, or a greyscale?
- Are the separations created directly from Quark or are you outputting to a PS file and distilling to a composite PDF? (Have you tried creating a pre-separated PDF? If so, what did you get?)

[Shannon]

The spot blends are native to quark and I am trying to create a composite PDF. Quark first prints to ps then I distill it.

If I set the output to Composite CMYK the spot colors are converted to CMYK and if I use device-n I loose the blend all together and have a solid block of each color.

with regards to the tiffs I just outputted using devicec-n and they were fine,

any help with the blen problem would be aprreciated

thanks

[DOZER]

On your blends are they blending to white or 0% of the PMS, try using 0% of the PMS if you have white.

[jimking]

Did you first print seperated lasers to see if it seperated properly first? If the lasers look ok then it could be that Apogee does not understand the color names, such as Pantone 185 C--try CV instead.

[rickself]

On your blends are they blending to white or 0% of the PMS, try using 0% of the PMS if you have white.
That's a good one but make the 0% of the PMS 1%. you'll get smoother blends without any banding. This works extremely well in Freehand also.