Spot Color Handling

How PrintFactory handles spot colors in jobs

Jobs may contain spot colors. If so, PrintFactory will check the profiles and libraries for these colors in a given sequence. If the spot color cannot be found, an error will be generated.

This is how PrintFactory handles spot colors:

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