Monday, 4 June 2007

Printing Tip 3

More acronyms.....

CMYK is a print process that uses 4 colours - Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and blacK. These four colours are used to produce all other colour ranges. This method is used in most full-colour commercial printing.








PMS refers to the Pantone Matching System, which provides a standard for describing printed colours using specific inks, and therefore results in the best colour replication for your artwork. The Pantone Color Matching System expands upon existing color reproduction systems such as the CMYK process. The Pantone system is based on a specific mix of pigments to create new colors—referred to as spot colours.




RGB refers to the primary colours, Red, Green and Blue. It is an additive colour model in which the 3 primary colours are combined in varying intensities to produce all the other colours. Monitors, scanners and even the marvellous human eye use RGB to produce or detect colour.




PDF stands for Portable Document Format.

This is used by Adobe Acrobat, Adobe's electronic publishing software for Windows, Mac OS, UNIX and DOS. You need the Adobe Reader software to view and print PDF files. PDF files can represent both vector and bitmap graphics.




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