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If Black is Black? I want my Image back!!

8 November 2011

Work with Black backgrounds from Photoshop and Indesign. Image Background NOT black but dark grey? In the world of web where you’re designing for the screen black is black, zero amounts of Red Green and Blue (RGB). No problem. In the world of Print however, the four colour CMYK process is used, where K (key) [...]

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What Is Trapping And How Is It Used In Print?

11 January 2010

What is trapping? Trapping is a pre-press technique used to compensate for registration errors in lithographic printing and is the process of adding a slight overlap between adjacent areas of color to avoid gaps caused by misalignent. A litho press requires each colour separation to be laid down one at a time over the next [...]

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How important is high quality print – Part 2

27 November 2009

In my previous blog ‘How important is high quality printing’ I focused mainly on the printing aspect and how important paper stock is to your item, say an A4 brochure, as well as the impact of any additional finishes and the importance of colour consistency. Although these are all extremely important factors for quality brochure [...]

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Choose Your Colour (Part 1): CMYK vs. Spot Colour Printing

11 August 2009

When it comes to designing, it is all about concept, layout, font and typography. The other very important thing is colour. There are two basic usage of colour when designing print artwork. 1. CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black) CMYK is a 4 colour process. Four colours (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black) are mixed and [...]

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What is a Press Ready PDF?

3 August 2009

What is a press ready PDF? PDF stands for Portable Document Format and was created by Adobe Systems primarily for document exchange. Most people will be familiar with the 2D fixed layout when exchanging files over email or downloading information from the web. PDFs are used to encapsulate the complete description of a file by [...]

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