How to spot print from ColourSys

Printing Special Inks such as Penetration Fluid, Metallics and Inhibitors


To ‘spot print’ means to direct a certain ink or layer in your design to a particular head, or heads, on your printer. 


Set up your Settings

  1. Go to AVA Menu > Settings > Printer and under Printing Mode, tick Overprinted Image and Spot Printing Layers as shown in the snapshot below:
  2. In ColourSys, go to File Menu > and, whilst holding down ^ (control key) on the keyboard, select Spot Print…
  3. Send the file to you printer in the usual way.
Delete

Note: If you open the printed document back into AVA, you can see how the spool file is composed.


 

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