At Emroy, we offer various specialised finished to give your printed work a unique, eye catching look. However, there are certain things to bear in mind when designing for specialised finishes.

Spot UV

To set files up for Spot UV, it is reccomended that Adobe Illustrator is used. If this is not possible, please contact us for more information.

  1. Firstly you will need to setup the pantone colour we will use for spot UV. To do this, open the Pantone Solid Coated swatch book then select Pantone 102.
  2. From the swatched window, double click the new colour.
  3. Change the colour mode to CMYK.
  4. Manually rename to “uv” (all lower class)
  5. Copy the area requiring spot uv to a new layer, pasted in front of everything else.
  6. Select the area requiring spot uv from the new layer you have created, click the fill option, select the UV colour and set the selected area to Overprit Fill in the attributes window.
  7. Double check just to ensure everything has gone smoothly by going to the view menu, overprint preview.