Spot color

Color Separation, Continued Spot color Spot color is a process you use to indicate areas for color separation by placing an overlay over a simple black-and-white line illustration. Make precise instructions to the printer on this overlay. If the drawing is complicated or has detailed color areas, make the color separations yourself. Create an overlay for each primary color, register it to the master, and indicate the desired color of ink. This process produces flat color with no modeling or shading. You create modeling or single color variations by using a shading sheet in the artwork or requesting the camera person to use a benday sheet. Fake color Fake color involves printing from original line artwork or continuous tone photograph by indicating color or screen tints on a separate overlay. The outlines of the image define the various color areas to strip in color panels. Duotones negatives is shot flatter than the other so that one plate will supply color while the other plate supplies detail. The detail is usually printed in the darker or dominant ink. You may use any combination of inks or black ink and a grey ink (called a true duotone). The two plates printed together produce a duotone print that appears to have more dimension than the original image. Using only two plates to print a color image with a dark dominant ink and a lighter secondary ink, results in a print known as a duotone. Two negatives are shot at different angles from a single piece of artwork. One of these Bourges sheets In the creation of artwork for color reproduction, you want to most nearly approximate the finished product before you commit yourself to the expense of color printing. Bourges sheets are transparent color sheets available in various colors and densities. By building up, removing, or cutting out sections of the sheets, you create color copy in separate overlays. The combined overlays simulate the printed product. Continued on next page 1-57