It's like getting a scale model car and the picture on the box is your art, and inside the box is your separation-program results. Thanks for proving the point that it is insanity to use something as an automation tool when you have to go and do the work yourself of fixing the separations after the tool was supposed to do its job. We will never move forward into printing artwork correctly and non-destructively and without making it an artform itself when it is not, until we understand the science of screenprinting better and apply it to the job of separation, RIP, screens and print. Maybe you'll realize why you need to post-process and adjust, have to FIX the damage done to your image and try to be a fancy "separation artist" but a lot of it cannot be fixed because the process is destructive to the original art. Run the image attached through your sep programs and see what you get. It would be hilarious if it weren't for the fact that people are so clueless about this evolving science that they can't even run simple test-drives of the software to see if it even does it right to begin with or not. (Then take that x 5 years = 124,800 separations in the time it takes you to do 10,400?)Īnd the separations you would be spending an hour tweaking would be worse than the fully automated 5-minute ones. so that is more like 60 minutes per hour divided by 5 minutes = 12 separations per hour x 8 hours = 96 separations per day x 260 work days in the year = 24,960 separation jobs per year easily done with total automation and no adjustment. if I had to I could produce a full separation to halftone RIP fully automated with no tweaking or adjustment - just print out the films - that would work better on press than anything a manual professional method would employ unless it were the same as the automations I use (but take a lot longer and have to remember all the steps manually), and aside from the time it takes to process perhaps a minute or 5 minutes depending on the computer resources and image-size and color-blend method. With my own separation methods it is more like this. 1 year = 52 weeks x 5 days workweek = 260 work days x perhaps 8 sep jobs a day if doing 1 every hour for 8 hour shift = 2,080 x 1 hour each - So you waste 2,080 hours a year doing something that the separation program could take care of for you? (And then, times 5 years of using the program, so 2,080 x 5 = 10,400 hours, or 10,400 separations in 5 years?) I run seps all day long that I just click 1 button and take the films to screens and press. You have to spend an HOUR tweaking out color separations. I just want to post this here so others may benefit. I will try and download their trial version tonight. With UltraSeps ($400), it looks like a great software, but I do not know much about it. However, SimpleSeps Rip and SimpleSeps Raster ($350+)are built for CorelDraw and Tom has great tutorials online. But the good thing is that I can use this for PS/AI and CorelDraw. I am leaning on Sepration Studio ($800), but I am hesistant to pull the trigger because of the price. If I can separate colors within 1 hour with one of these programs, I will be happy. I have watched multiple videos using Photoshop to separate colors, but it could be very time consuming. But now, I want to jump into simulated process printing. I mostly print graphics with simple or no halftones. I also have PS and AI., but dont use it as much. Note: I mostly use CorelDraw for my graphics and I own Accurip. I hope somebody here can share a little bit of knowledge on which product is the best one to use for me. The price range for these products are from $350 - $800. I couldn't decide on which color separator software to buy.
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