Four Color Process, Color Separation for Screen Printing

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

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printing.

The following table shows the basic differences between printing technologies.

Offset Printing Screen Printing

Description
(CMYK) (CMYK)

The CMYK file should

be created from RGB
Four-Color Process Separation: - channels with the
color separation
software.

65 - 177 LPI 45 - 65 LPI

Screen Frequency:
(Lines per Inch) (Lines per Inch)

Standard Screen Angles:

Cyan: 105 degrees 15 degrees

Magenta: 75 degrees 45 degrees

Yellow: 90 degrees 75 degrees

Black: 45 degrees 75 degrees

Dot Shape: Round Dots Elliptical Dots

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
4 Process Colors 4 Process Colors
process colors: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow,
and Black)

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:

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U.S. Dollar (USD), Euro (EUR), Canadian

Multi Currency Support: 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 [email protected] 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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1. Screens should have an identical tension 25 - 30 Newton’s.

2. Use frequency between 45 LPI and 65 LPI (LPI - Lines per Inch).
3. Use the Elliptical dot shape.

Use the following screen angles:

1. White base for dark T-shirts (Spot Color) 15 degrees

White Base for light colored or pastel T-Shirts (Spot

2. 15 degrees
Color)

3. Cyan (Process Color) 15 degrees

4. Magenta (Process Color) 45 degrees

5. Yellow (Process Color) 75 degrees

6. Black (Process Color) 75 degrees

7. Highlight White (Spot Color) 15 degrees

8. Spot Colors 15 degrees

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