All adverts with full colour need to have separations in order that the advert will appear showing correct colour representation. An individual printing plate is made for each colour used in the advert. This is a costly procedure and should only be done by a specialist.
artwork, photographs, or digital files prepared for printing by dividing them into either the four primary printing colours (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) or specified spot colours (for example, black and Pantone 422).
Proofs that show how each colour in your publication will separate into colour printing plates for final printing on a commercial printer. Separations are printed in black and white even when you print them on a desktop printer. The separations are not intended to show colours, only how the colours will separate onto individual plates for printing on the press.
The division of a multicolour image into monochrome components for colour printing. Four colour or process separations result in four pieces of film (CMYK); spot colour separations result in one piece of film for each spot colour.
On a printing press the different colours used in a document are printed one at a time. Each colour has its own separate printing plate, containing only the parts of the page that use that colour. Colour separations refers to artwork split into these component plates of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black in preparation for process printing ( CMYK), or into the required number of plates for spot colour printing.
Originals which have been separated to identify spot colour differences within the specifications i.e. one original with spot colour headings only, the other with the body of text only
the division of a multi-coloured original or line copy into the basic (or primary) process colours of yellow, magenta, cyan and black. These should not be confused with the optical primaries; red, green and blue. Column inch - a measure of area used in newspapers and magazines to calculate the cost of display advertising. A column inch is one column wide by one inch deep.
The process of preparing artwork, photographs, transparencies, or computer generated art for printing by separating into the four primary printing colors.
The separation of multicoloured original art by camera or laser-scan techniques to produce individual separated colours. There are four common separations: yellow, magenta, cyan and black.
