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Please flatten your files first to maintain control
Comment by jlnewman on August 20, 2003
As a prepress person myself, I've tried time and again to convice our customers to flatten their transparencies themselves so they can maintain control of their designs. Unfortunately our good author left a few key things our. If you use a spot color in a transparency, chances are it's going to turn into a CMYK build when you flatten it.
Transparancy and RIP
Comment by jlnewman on April 18, 2002
I agree with this article, to a point. I have to drive home the idea of flattening the artwork before sending to your service provider, though. It isn't only becuase some applications won't support transperancy, it's because no RIP that I'm aware of will. PostScript 3 doesn't (even though it supports reading PDFs), and there isn't a PostScript 4 on the horizon, yet.
