To reproduce color and continuous-tone images, printers usually separate artwork into four plates - one plate for each of the cyan (C), yellow (Y), magenta (M), and black (K) portions of the image.

When inked with the appropriate color and printed in register with one another, these colors combine to reproduce the original artwork.

The process of dividing the image into two or more colors is called color separating, and the films from which the plates are created are called the separations.

Fred4 handles following color separation internally:

•Text

•Rules, boxes and backgrounds in text and on pages

•EPS color drawings

•Images

 

 

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