Screen Printing Question
Patrick
can I use black on a blue background when the output is to a screen printer
who has quoted for 2 colors but no blends (spot color from what I have read
here) I am getting conflicitng answers from my customers consultation with
the printer and what I have asked from the printer. The printers are not
native english speakers and so can be quite hard to get a definitive answer.
Any help welcome
Patrick
Tacit
>who has quoted for 2 colors but no blends (spot color from what I have read
>here)
Yes. But you must create your Photoshop file so that it is 2-color black and
blue. it cannot be RGB and it cannot be CMYK (all RGB files are 3-color, all
CMYK files are 4-color).
Start with a grayscale document. From the Channels palette flyout menu, select
the "New Spot Channel" command. Put in the information for the new spot
channel.
Everything that should print black goes in teh black channel. Everything that
should print blue goes in the spot color channel. When you are done, save the
image as a DCS2 file.
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Patrick
requested, file one will have all the layout that is printed in black and
then file 2 will have all the color layout. This should work fine ??
Patrick
P.S. I presume spot color is very much for printers and design that require
EXACT colors and not like what I am doing which is a completely new layout
and so there is no definative colors to match to ??
Thanks for all your help
Tacit
>requested, file one will have all the layout that is printed in black and
>then file 2 will have all the color layout. This should work fine ??
Yes.
>P.S. I presume spot color is very much for printers and design that require
>EXACT colors and not like what I am doing which is a completely new layout
>and so there is no definative colors to match to ??
Spot color is for people who will be printing using only a few colors of ink.
The phrase "spot color," when translated into English, means "you use a special
color of ink to print every color on your page." If there is something orange
on the page, you print it with orange ink. If there is something purple on the
page, you print it with purple ink.
The opposite is "process color." The phrase "process color," when translated
into English, means "You
print every color on the page by mixing Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black inks
together." If there is something orange on the page, you mix magenta and
yellow. If there is something purple on the page, you mix magenta and cyan.
All process color jobs are always printed with four colors. Those four colors
are cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. If you have a process color job, it's a
4-color job *by definition*.
The advanage of spot color: You get the exact color you want. You want a bright
purple, you pick a bright purple ink. The disadvantage: If you have 27
colors on the page, you have to use 27 colors of ink. Prnting a job this way
will cost more than most people's houses cost. Of course, if you have only 2
colors, you print the job using only 2 inks, which is cheaper than using
process color (which requires 4 inks).
The advantage of process color: It's always 4 colors of ink. If you have 7
colors on the page, it's 4 colors of ink. If you have 27 colors on the page,
it's 4 colors of ink. If you have 7,000 colors on the page, it's 4 colors of
ink. The disadvantage: You can't get all colors. There is no way to mix cyan,
magenta, yellow, and black to get neon green, or brilliant purple. You will
always be limited in the color you can get.
You can combine spot and process color. For example, say you have a page that
has a photograph and a purple logo on it. The photograph has to be printed
process. But let's say that the logo is bright purple, and you know that CMYK
can't give you that really bright color. You can print the page using cyan,
magenta, yellow, black, and purple inks--for a total of 5 colors.
Patrick
I have is on the screen printing aspect. Is the different color printed in
different processes, i.e. is the color printed first and the the black text
etc printed over this in a second run of the paper through the printer ?
Again thanks for all your help, I now understand so much more
Patrick
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Tacit
>I have is on the screen printing aspect. Is the different color printed
>in different processes, i.e. is the color printed first and the the black text
>etc printed over this in a second run of the paper through the printer ?
Yes.