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Chapter 16:
Changing Vinyl Colors to Spot Foil Colors
Imported clip art and vinyl-only jobs can be changed to spot foil print jobs for a thermal printer
using the Posterize Shapes command in the Tools Menu. The posterizing process automatically
matches the original design colors to the closest spot foil colors.
After posterizing, shapes are filled and are print-only. Shapes which should be combined, such
as text, must be manually combined after posterizing. Refer to the section "Making the Design
Print Correctly" for more information about combining shapes.
Posterizing methods
Most vinyl-only jobs contain several vinyl colors (referred to as a multi-vinyl job) as in the
following example.
There are two ways to posterize a multi-vinyl job for printing, depending on the requirements
of the design:
♦ Posterizing the entire job: When you posterize an entire job, it becomes a single vinyl-
color job with the original design colors printed on the vinyl by a thermal printer. This
is the most common method of posterizing.
♦ Posterizing selected parts of the job: When you posterize selected parts of the job,
you still have a multi-vinyl job, but only some of the vinyl colors have thermal
printing on them. For example, in the golf sale illustration, if you don't have any
yellow-orange fluorescent foil you would have to make this a multi-vinyl job. You
would use yellow-orange fluorescent vinyl for the golf and posterize the remainder of
the sign in the indicated colors on white vinyl.
The following section describes posterizing the entire job. If you are posterizing only part of a
job (multi-vinyl job), select only the vinyl shapes to posterize.
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