Four-Color Process Screen Printing is a method of printing that uses four colors (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black) to produce full-color images.

1. Four-Color Process Screen Printing

Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black are also called Process Colors and are used in Four-Color Printing to reproduce other colors.

CMYK color model
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black

Some colors such as green and orange are especially difficult to reproducing in the CMYK model. If you want that green and orange were brighter and saturated, they can be printed as additional Spot Colors.

Fluorescent and metallic colors cannot be printed by mixing of four process colors. These colors also should be printed as additional Spot Colors.

Four-Color Process for silk-screen printing differs from traditional offset printing.

The following table shows the basic differences between printing technologies.

2. Color Separation Services

We can make high-quality color separation of your artwork for light and dark T-shirts.

Our Services Include:	Light T-Shirts	Dark T-Shirts
Four-Color Process (CMYK) (Color separation of your design into four process colors: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black)	4 Process Colors	4 Process Colors
White Base for dark T-Shirts	-
White Base for light colored or pastel T-Shirts	-
Highlight White
Brightness and Contrast Adjustment *
Color Correction *
White Balance Adjustment *
General Guidelines and Instructions:
How to print color separations from Photoshop?
How to set up color profiles?
How to create a curve, to compensate for Dot Gain?
Payment Methods:
Multi Currency Support:	U.S. Dollar (USD), Euro (EUR), Canadian Dollar (CAD), Australian Dollar (AUD), and others.
Fast Turnaround:	24 hours	24 hours
Total Price:	$35.00 USD	$35.00 USD

* - Minimum Adjustment

3. Acceptable Artwork Formats

We accept the following PC or MAC file formats:

Preferred file format:

• ADOBE PHOTOSHOP (*.PSD)

Other file formats:

• ADOBE PHOTOSHOP (*.PSD, *TIFF, *.EPS - Encapsulated POSTSCRIPT)
• ADOBE Illustrator (*.EPS, *.AI)
• ADOBE Acrobat (*.PDF - Portable Document Format)
• ADOBE INDESIGN (*.EPS)
• JASC Paint Shop Pro (*.PSP) (JASC Software Inc)
• COREL Draw (*.PSD, *.EPS, *.TIF, *.AI, *.CDR)
• COREL Paint Shop Pro (*.PSP)
• COREL Photo Paint (*.PSD, *.EPS, *TIF)
• COREL Pointer (*.PSD, *.EPS, *TIF)
• MACROMEDIA FREEHAND (*.EPS, *.FH5, *.FH7, *.FH8, *.FH9, *.FH10)
• QUARKXPRESS (*.EPS) (Choose File --> Save Page as EPS)
• KODAK Photo CD (*.PCD)
• MICROSOFT PowerPoint (*.PPT)
• ADOBE PAGEMAKER (*.EPS)
• MICROSOFT Publisher (*.PUB)
• TIFF (*.TIF; *.TIFF - Tagged Image File Format)
• JPEG (*.JPG, *.JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group Bitmaps)
• JPEG2000
• BMP (*.BMP - Windows Bitmap)

4. How to place an order?

If you would like to place an order, please send your file as an e-mail attachment at support@colorsepspro.com and click the link below to fill out our Order Form.

For more information, see Overview.

5. Four-Color Process Guidelines:

 

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