What is the printing process?

Basic process: the original - color separation draft - out of film - plate - printing

1) original: we want to print the manuscript

We know that the printing is usually referred to as "four-color printing "This concept is because the colors in the printed materials are composed of four colors C, M, Y, K

Often we come into contact with the printed materials, is in accordance with the four-color overprinted

2) color separation: color separation is a printing term that refers to the original manuscript of the various colors are broken down into yellow, magenta, cyan, black, the four primary colors colors; In computer printing and design or graphic design image software, color separation work is the scanned image or other sources of the image of the color mode is converted to CMYK mode

In Photoshop, color separation operation is actually very simple: only need to image color mode from the RGB mode or Lab mode is converted to CMYK mode can be

So that the color of the image is represented by the color pigment (ink), with four color channels

Image in the output film will be generated according to the color of the channel data dots, and divided into yellow, magenta, cyan, black, four color film

3) film: film is a very critical thing, in fact, with the negative is the same as the film we use

Four colors to be out of the four film, the four film corresponds to the following. Four film corresponding to the following: C, M, Y, K

Out of the film are black and white, until the time of printing into the number, which color is also used in which ink to print is

4) plate: film completed we can take a CMYK mode directly to the completion of the picture (printing is usually used in the bitmap image format is tif) to go directly to the film and do not have to you to each color separately, this is a computer to do things. color separate, this is something that the computer does, we can see in photoshop, a CMYK picture (usually we encounter pictures of RGB mode, can be converted to CMYK and then look), in the channel panel, you can see that there are four kinds of channels were expressed in four colors

The film is used in the phototypesetting machine, there is special software, the operation of the relatively speaking is not difficult!

Film out

Plate is easy to understand the matter, the operation of the relevant equipment you learn in practice

5) Printing: Printing is divided into lithography, gravure printing, letterpress printing, screen printing, and other different types of printing because of the different principles of printing, the separation of the color out of the film, there will be some differences, to give an example, screen printing, film film sheet The direction should be left and right to adjust the

(like a seal)

Specific reasons for you to the actual to understand it