Screen printing lives and dies by clean separations. When artwork arrives as a single flattened PDF, you need each color on its own – fast.
The usual bottleneck
Artwork handed off from a designer is often a print-ready PDF with spot colors and a cut line baked in as optional-content layers. Your RIP or burn workflow needs those as discrete files, not one merged page.
A cleaner path
- Inspect the file to confirm the spot, cut and print layers are present.
- Export each layer as its own PDF – no manual masking or pen-tool rebuilds.
- Send the separated files straight to your separation or burn step.
The time you save is the hour you’d otherwise spend rebuilding separations by hand on a file you didn’t create.