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Working with Spot Color Channels | Planet Photoshop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Spot color channels are designed to provide a channel for additional inks to be used in commercial printing. Spot channels don't interact with layers, so adding a type layer in a spot color is out of the question. Since the spot color is in a separate channel, it is protected while you continue editing and adjusting the rest of the image. www.planetphotoshop.com /working-with-spot-color-channels.html   (862 words)

Spot color logos - color accuracy and economical printing Spot color reproduction is generally more economical than that featuring a four color process logo, and as the ink colors are based on exact matching formulas, color accuracy and control are optimal. Spot color printing usually costs less (for the simple reason that the paper requires 1/2 the number of impressions as 4 color process, and can be printed on a smaller sized press. While it's true that spot colors are extremely accurate when it comes to traditional printing, there might be some issues when its comes to converting colors for web based use (RGB colors used in website design and Flash animations of your logo) or for four-color use in brochures and catalogs. www.thelogofactory.com /library/articles/spot-color-logo.html   (1796 words)

Process Color vs Spot Color   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Process colors are reproduced by overlapping and printing halftones to simulate a large number of colors. Process color printing should not be confused with basic four-color printing, where overlays are cut for the colors, and sheets of halftone dots are used to create other colors and patterns. Spot colors are printed with premixed inks on a printing press or screen printer. www.mam-a.com /sales_services/process_color_vs_spot_color.htm   (301 words)

Full Color Printing Quote, Four Color Process, 4 Color Printing Services, Web Offset, Sheetfed Printers. For instance, a job composed of four process colors, a fifth spot color, and a varnish can be printed on a six color press or on a four-color press with a wash-up between printing the process colors and the spot colors. One final note: Choose both spot colors and their process equivalents from a current Pantone swatch book that specifically notes both Pantone spot colors and their nearest four-color matches. If you have a specific color you want to match and you want to limit your color palette to the four process colors to control costs, you may find that the four-color equivalent noted in your swatch book actually does come very close to the spot color you have chosen. www.printindustry.com /newsletter_6.htm   (788 words)

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite - Spot Color Tips for Thrifty Designers - Corel Corporation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Child colors are dynamically linked to their parent color styles which means that any change to the parent style will be automatically reflected in the linked child color. Using the Color docker, apply your spot color inks in graduated tints of 10 percent increments (from 10 to 100 percent). Use the Color docker to apply the second spot color ink and tint to the duplicate object. www.corel.com /servlet/Satellite?c=Content_C1&cid=1153321232420&lc=jp&pagename=jp%2FLayout   (2263 words)

Color Spot at HTML Station Color Codes Chart: large chart which shows colors, swatches defined by their six-digit hexadecimal representations, then the hexadecimal code, decimal code, percent code, HSL (hue, saturation, and light), and CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, and fl--for comparison--CMYK is not used in HTML or CSS) code of the color. The Named Colors in the Scalable Vector Graphics Specification in CMYK: this is of the form cmyk(C%, M%, Y%, K%), where C, M, Y, and K are the percent values for the cyan, magenta, yellow, and fl values of the color. The alpha (a) is the opacity of the color (a = 0 = transparent; a = 1 = opaque). www.december.com /html/spec/colorspot.html   (2120 words)

CDCentric.com | Spot Color | CD Replication, DVD Replication, & More These are pretty universal ways to define color, no matter what the actual mechanical means of doing the printing may be (offset printing presses or screen printers, as examples). In the simplest sense, spot color printing means that the actual color of the objects in your design (text, lines, boxes, etc.) are defined using a numeric value (a PMS value). It is here to give you a representation of the spectrum of colors available and a way to "pre-select" colors to use before you have a chance to actually verify them. www.cdcentric.com /help/spot-color.asp   (796 words)

spot color Definition: TechEncyclopedia from TechWeb A color that is printed from one printing plate which contains one matched color of ink. Spot colors are used when only one or two solid colors are needed on a page or when a color has to match perfectly and be consistent such as with a company logo or when colors are the trademark of the organization or message. If spot color is used along with process color, then a four-color print job becomes a five or six-color job. www.techweb.com /encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=spotcolor   (306 words)

[No title] A spot color is a specially mixed ink that is applied on the printing press, as opposed to a mix of the four inks which make up process printing. Spot colors can be produced in a much more vibrant range of colors, and can have special characteristics which aren't available in process inks, such as day-glow or metallic ink. When naming spot colors on the computer, be careful to use the EXACT SAME NAME in all of the programs which use that color. www.techcolor.com /help/spotcolors.html   (790 words)

Screening Spot Color   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) SPOT COLORS SELECTED for use in the Burlington (Vt.) Free Press originate not from the paper's new digital prepress systems but from process color combinations known to be printable on the Gannett daily's Goss Metro press. Color use splits roughly at 80% by advertising and 20% by editorial, though "within reason" editorial color is permitted on pages with or without color ads, according to Latulippe, who cited a recent fashion section where the color "worked well." On the ad side, Maloney said that with "a better selection. Maloney said a chosen color is placed in the typing tool menu in the program being used, from which it can be assigned by pointer to a specific part of an ad. www.trumatch.com /articles/t-edpub.htm   (1307 words)

What is spot color? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Refers to a method of specifying and printing colors in which each color is printed with its own ink. Spot color printing is effective when the printed matter contains only one to three different colors, but it becomes prohibitively expensive for more colors. There are a number of color specification systems for specifying spot colors, but Pantone is the most widely used. www.webopedia.com /TERM/S/spot_color.html   (158 words)

My Design Studio's MyDesignPrimer.com | Graphic Design Printing: All About Spot Color Printing Spot colors can also be used alongside process (CMYK) colors for greater flexibility. The most common of the spot color standards is the Pantone Matching System or, PMS as it is more commonly known. Spot colors can be combined to create duotones, tritones and quadtones that can be very effective and can add some visual interest to otherwise grayscale images. www.mydesignprimer.com /printing/50028.html   (372 words)

Production First Software Encyclopedia of Typography and Electronic Communication : S spot color A PMS color which is printed either alone, or in combination with other spot or process colors for a multicolor document or presentation. spot size The area on a CRT screen, photosensitive laser printer drum, or photographic medium in an imagesetter which is sensitized. subtractive color A color reproduction technique which relies on superimposing process colors on a medium (usually paper or transparent projection film) in order to display a range of different colors. ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/profirst/s.htm   (7225 words)

HITACHI PRINTING SOLUTIONS AMERICA, INC. ANNOUNCES NEW HIGH SPEED SPOT COLOR PRINTER The DDP 184 is spot color capable and can begin producing highlight color documents when color developer and toner are added. In simplex spot color mode, each engine prints both fl and color toner on one side at 92 ipm. MICR toner will be able to be added in much the same way that color toner is added and this capability will further expand the printing flexibility by providing the ability to print documents, such as bank checks. www.aiim.org /article-docrep.asp?ID=27550   (672 words)

Quark :: View topic - Greyscale with one spot color comes in and prints as low res The only way quark will allow me to view the spot color is if the file is saved as a DCS 2.0. The problem with this is when the image is brought into quark as the DCS2.0/eps/greyscale w/spot color, it comes in pixelated and fuzzy as if it is a low resolution. If you have to produce a proof simulating the spot color, that might not work, but that's the old fashioned way of working around spot color problems. www.quark.com /service/forums/viewtopic.php?p=27857   (644 words)

Articles on Web Design   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Spot Color as an alternative by Karen Nodalo, submitted 21 July,2005 Color printing has been applied in most types of printing from commercial advertising to businesses. So it would not be shocking for those who knew when they see their prints turning out not the same as the one they have been seeing so perfectly on screen. www.opentopia.com /artlist.php?source=go&catid=61   (1262 words)

Planet PDF Forum Archive -InDesign: Apply spot color to placed psd? Date: 5/15/2003 05:19 AM I'm doing a 2-color job, and I need to apply a spot color to a grayscale psd with an alpha feathered edge that I have placed in my InDesign file. When I select the psd image with the direct selection tool and select the spot color in the swatch menu, the image color remains fl even though the square color icon in the swatch palette indicates the object is now the spot color. When I preflighted the file there were only the 2 spot colors listed, however when I output the separations I get 3 plates, the 2 spots plus a fl with the psd image on it. www.planetpdf.com /forumarchive/87751.asp   (403 words)

Quark :: View topic - Importing Spot Color PDF? When placed in Quark as a pdf the one made with jaws brings in the spot color. Like i mentioned the pdf for both ways has spot color in it when viewed in acrobat. If you send me the PDF file from Acrobat Distiller I will have a look into it and will try to invetigate why the spot color is lost. www.quark.com /service/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9361&view=next   (323 words)

Planet PDF Forum Archive -Spot Color (Grayscale plus one Color) & PDF for press The quickest way is to use the filters on our Advanced Search page so that only archive pages are included in the results. Date: 4/7/2003 06:06 PM I am looking for some answers on how to go about incorporating spot color ads into Quark XPress layouts and then further on to PDF. Any pages that have spot color on them we cannot put through the pdf process and still do paste-ups that are camera-ready with the fl as one plate and the spot color as the additional plate. www.planetpdf.com /forumarchive/85661.asp   (370 words)

Soft Color Proofing Systems Highlight Digital Gains at Print 05 Color matching vendor Pantone Inc., of Carlstadt, N.J., used the show to debut a new hardware color matching system, called Color Cue 2. The $349 battery-powered device measures a color and provides users with the closest selection from the company's library of coated, uncoated and matte paper stocks as well as selections from its textile color library. Developer Integrated Color Solutions Inc., of New York, demonstrated the latest version of its Remote Director monitor-based remote proofing system at the show. www.publish.com /article2/0,1895,1858940,00.asp   (915 words)

Color hex code, hex color code, hex color code chart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Color hex code, hex color code, hex color code chart Info About Color hex code, hex color code, hex color code chart, html hex color code Find results for color hex code and anything else you are looking for instantly! www.babiesheaven.com /color-hex-code.html   (334 words)

Custom designed and printed in spot color, Business Cards, uniquely designed. Custom designed and printed in spot color, Business Cards, uniquely designed. Because of the way spot Coors are mixed, there are numerous colors that can be created with spot color inks that can't be duplicated in full color printing such as fluorescent inks, metallic inks, mat, gloss and tinted varnishes. These standard colors will be printed on the front of my business card. www.weprintcolor.com /BusinessCardsspot.htm   (293 words)

The Color Spot Bring us 12 of your favortite photographs and we will give you a years worth of smiles. Baby blue is just one of zillions of colors available at The Color Spot. Come in today and let us help you show off your true colors. www.thecolorspot.com   (85 words)

GameSpot:Video Games PC PlayStation 2 Xbox 360 Wii PS3 GameCube PSP DS GBA PS2 PlayStation 3 NBA Live 08 Updated Hands-On We investigate the three features that look to change how you play the NBA Live series. On the Spot - 07/05/07 This week's show is your last stop before E3 2007! Surprise special guests, amazing trailers, in-depth interviews and live gameplay demonstrations will all help prepare you for GameSpot's mammoth coverage kicking off next week. www.gamespot.com   (443 words)

Shadowbania Downloads   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Looking to make your own Shadowbane Fan Site or wishing to update your Guild Website with Shadowbane art files? The first has various images in the PSD format that provides extended support for features such as layering, alpha channels, true spot color, vector type and paths, and many other features. The second files contains all of the same images but all of them are in the JPG format which does not allow layering. www.ashentemper.com /downloads   (322 words)

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