Can the UV print gods of this site advise me please?

[prsman]

I have a clipping group that is white. The tayda pdf tool gives me an alert that "ALERT: CMYK 0,0,0,0 (WHITE PAINT) DETECTED." When I try to switch to the roland swatch it kind of fills in the entire thing and the effect I am going for gets lost. I am no graphic designer so I am a bit lost at how to overcome this. This is before adding the swatch


After

 

[derevaun]

If I understand your design, you want the pink powdercoat to show through where the design is pink? If so, you could flatten the clipping group (using Crop in Pathfinder, e.g.).

The tool flags Process White (CMYK 0,0,0,0), but at the printer it's effectively transparent when it prints the COLOR layer. I've always left it, with no problems (making sure there's corresponding RDG_WHITE on the WHITE layer).

I usually do the RDG_WHITE stuff as a last step, copying everything to the WHITE layer and changing its fill there to RDG_WHITE. It's a lot easier when the whole design is flattened (using Merge in Pathfinder, e.g.). Lately I've deleted any Process White paths from the COLOR layer, and the tool seems happy with that.

Having RDG_WHITE on the COLOR layer might cause its grayish process color to print, but I assume the tool would flag that.

 

[Synchrony Pedalworks]

To add a white color to the color layer, there is a way to do it. I have picked the whitest swatch in the CMYK options, but avoid pure white, and used that in the color layer. The color is not pure white, but close enough. Tayda’s printers will be able to make that work. I hope that makes sense and may work for you.