PLANNING FOR PRINT
Print Section in Part II of this book explains how a –iting plate must be made for each colour in order to transfer the colour-filtered components of the image onto –er. In four- or six-colour process, the coloured area of an original image are analyzed for how much of each priting ink required to simulate the colour at any given point. Then location of each required ink colour is transferred to the appropriate plate as tiny, close-printing dots in a conversion procedure called halftoning. The dots in a full-color halftone – in size according to how much of their ink colour is required at a given spot but even the biggest of dots is so small – it merges almost imperceptibly with the surrounding dots to create the illusion of a visually smooth change of colour, -e, and intensity.