: Correcting colors for logos on Business cards I am designing business cards in Illustrator, however my printers use Corel Draw and some of the logos do not show up on their side. They mention

@Turnbaugh909

Note that your logos are not "disappearing" in Corel.

The printer is showing you a screenshot of elements that have incorrect coloring - RGB and Spot colors. What you see in their screenshot is what needs fixing.



To correct these you need to select them and change the fill/stroke to correct CMYK colors.

By Overprint, the printer is referring to setting black elements to overprint. This ensures they aren't screened and print solid on top of other colors. It is customary to want small black elements to overprint for optimum appearance. Overprint never means "bleed' when talking to a print provider. It means Overprint.

To do this you select anything with a black fill or stroke and then tick the Overprint options on the Attributes Panel (Window > Attributes).

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@Annie732

Your printer isnt being very helpful by the sound of it, I thought professional Corel use dissolved 10 years ago along with Quark...!!

You should be sending them your files as a PDF (they should also supply a spec) not a native format. Along with a .JPG proof for them to check.

You must use ONLY CMYK elements within your print design in AI or when you save out to PDF the RGB elements will be converted to CMYK and the colours will change slightly, sometimes dramatically - not always a big issue, but can cause issues.

To convert: select all the objects in the document. Next goto Edit -> Edit Colors, and select the "Convert to CMYK"

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