

We usually generate a very light shaded Blue color in Illustrator and call it White Backup and check the spot color setting in the color palette and it works just fine. The palette will appear on the right of the interface but let’s place it along the bottom. Then expand Spot > Pantone > Pantone+ and select Solid Coated-V3. In the docker, click on the arrow beside Palette Libraries to expand the selection.

You can't use the "White" in the Corel Spot Color palette to generate a separation because it has no color values and you cant see it on the page either. Let’s also open that palette to have it handy as we are designing. (Choose spot colors from only a single palette type.) In the toolbox, click the Interactive Blend tool. From the spot color ink palette, apply different spot colors for the fill and outline properties of each of your two new objects. We are getting a lot of work from a new customer who uses Corel Draw as their main application and they don't generate the White Backup because it isn't available in any of the Corel Color palettes. Click Window > Color Palettes, and select a fixed ink palette, such as a PANTONE spot color ink palette. Colors are mixed from custom color palettes based on CMYK, RGB. Corel Draw Tips & Tricks Create a Pantone color and save it as a CMYK. In other applications we usually call this color White Backup. More sophisticated automated effects, such as CorelDraw's Extrude or Perspective are not. We print a lot of work using White ink and have the need for generating a color separation film for the White. My new custom spot color always separates out to film in CMYK not the spot color separation.

I am working with both version 12, X3 and demo X4 and can't seem to get this done. The halftone underbase can go on a higher mesh such as 180 to 230. Obviously you will need to flash cure after the white. Put the top colors on 200 to 305 mesh using all purpose ink. How does one create a new custom spot color in Corel Draw. For spot-color underbases the white underbase should be put on an to 140 to 180 mesh (depending on how white the white in the image should be).
