Color for Designers: Ninety-five things you need to know when choosing and using colors for layouts and illustrations

Chapter 12. Color and Printing

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What do you need to know in order to properly prepare your artwork for color printing? More than can be covered in this chapter, for sure, and it’s recommended that you consult books, websites, printing professionals, and other designers to fully expand your knowledge of practical and technical aspects involved with printing in color.

This chapter covers several fundamental aspects related to color and printing—good foundational material upon which to begin building your knowledge of printing—starting with coverage of the four inks used to do most of the world’s color printing.

CMYK* inks are used as the basis for both process-color printing (full-color printing done with offset printing presses) and ...