Create a new Spot Color

[inprinter]

How does one create a new custom spot color in Corel Draw. I am working with both version 12, X3 and demo X4 and can't seem to get this done. My new custom spot color always separates out to film in CMYK not the spot color separation.

We print a lot of work using White ink and have the need for generating a color separation film for the White. In other applications we usually call this color White Backup. 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. 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. 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. Just trying to find similar method in Corel. Any help will be much appreciated.

Inprinter

 

[Brushman]

Use Pantone transparent white in the Pantone solid coated pallett, this can be added to your own pallett and will separate properly.
Alan D

 

[harry99]

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.

That bit you can solve. Layout : Page Background, select "solid" and pick a colour such as 20% grey, or perhaps better still pick "bitmap" and create a bitmap like photopaint shows when you have a transparent background.

Background isn't an object, so it doesn't print or separate -- but when you put a white object in front of it you should see it.