Midnight Printing
Preparing Your Artwork
2721 Losee Road, Suite A
North Las Vegas, Nevada 89030
Local: 702-399-5650
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Color |
| There are many ways to define color space. For our purpose we will address CMYK and Spot Colors. RGB color is used by most bitmap editors (PhotoShop) as a working color space. For the final use of RGB created art, it must be converted to CMYK. |
| CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black) refers to the process of producing full color printed images. There is a separate piece of film created for each of the colors, which in turn are used to create four distinct plates for the press. When creating a full color document be sure to include Registration Marks outside the image area. Most full color documents are designed to be run on oversize stock. The extra stock will be trimmed away to complete the finished piece. The extra stock area is utilized for the Registration Marks and Color Bars. |
| Spot Colors refer to distinct ink colors. The industry standard are refered to as PMS colors. PMS (Pantone Matching System) was developed years ago to allow printers around the world to universally define colors. For each Spot Color used within your document, you will require a separate piece of film to be created. Unlike the CMYK process, the Spot Colors you use will not blend to create the full color effect of CMYK. You can 'screen' the Spot Colors. This will allow you to use percentages of the Spot Color ink. For example, you could set your type at 100% of the spot color and put a 10% screen of that same color behind that type. | |
