Overprinting in Illustrator

[dfiner]

long time listener... first time caller... love the show.

I'm a screen print artist --- T-shirts, signs... spot color art. Creating
art for printing, I build Illustrator 8 files with pantone colors and select
certain areas to overprint each other - i.e. 100% Fluorescent Pink
overprinting 100% Turquoise makes a vibrant purple.

Is there a way to preview the art to show the effect of the overprint? I've
rasterized... Opened the file in Photoshop as AI, EPS, PS,... exported as
JPG, TIF... to no avail.

The goal is to proof the art with customers through e-mail and somewhat show
the effects of the overprinting of spot colors.

Many thanks for the tips & tricks the past few weeks.

vid

[Poul Solbjerg]

In Ai 9 you can choose overprint preview.

For AI 8.0 barco has a plugin called FinalEye that makes it
possible to view overprint, outline, preview, inkbased preview
and separation preview on screen.

http://www.finaleye.com/finaleye.htm

Poul Solbjerg

dfiner skriver:

[dfiner]

> In Ai 9 you can choose overprint preview.
>
> For AI 8.0 barco has a plugin called FinalEye that makes it
> possible to view overprint, outline, preview, inkbased preview
> and separation preview on screen.
>
> http://www.finaleye.com/finaleye.htm
>
> Poul Solbjerg
>
>
>
> dfiner skriver:
>

Bless you. Sounds exactly like what I need - I'm downloading the trial even
as I type.

I'm waiting to upgrade until you guys work the bugs out of 9.

Thanks again

vid

[Debs work box]

I downloaded a free viewer from Kinkos (online) that shows me 'exactly' what my
logos look like printed off. (I know nothing about printing).

All you do it open you image in your graphics program and do a 'print to' the
kinkos viewer - the viewer opens and you see your image as if it has been
printed by Kinkos :)

It also converts it to a file for kinkos to print if you are like me and too
cheap to buy color cartridges for your printer.

:) D