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Spot color output
You can use custom inks to create spot
colors (also called custom colors), in
addition to or in place of process colors.
Because a spot color is printed using
a single plate, spot colors can often
reduce the complexity and cost of
printing artwork.
For example, instead of using the four
process colors to reproduce artwork
consisting of black text and bluish-
green line drawings, you could use two
spot colors—one of black and one repre-
senting that exact shade of green. In
addition, you can use custom color inks
to produce colors not reproducible by
CMYK inks, such as fluorescent and
metallic colors.
You can use the Paint Style palette to
display the CMYK equivalent of a spot
color.
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