Swapped from automatic trapping to manual separations after a 400 dollar job came back as a muddy smear

I used to trust the software to handle all my color separations for me, but after that disaster where every cyan and magenta bled together into a mess that looked like a watercolor painting, I switched to doing them by hand in Photoshop about six months ago and now I catch issues before they hit the print run instead of after; has anyone else found that manual control saves them from similar nightmares?

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lilyt905d ago

Did you have to completely redo your workflow for manual separations, or did you just add an extra check before sending to print?

john_hunt25d ago

Did you ever just stare at a screen hoping it'd fix itself (which never works)?