2013

Imagesetting 301
document has large areas of solid black, overprinting all black can cause
problems with over-inking on the press.
Printing on all plates
PRINT ON ALL PLATES is known in some programs as REGISTRATION BLACK.
You sometimes want an object to appear on all separations. To do this, select the
object then right click and select "
IMAGESETTING" > "PRINT ON ALL PLATES" or choose
"
UTILITIES -> IMAGESETTING -> PRINT ON ALL PLATES".
The object color changes to black or gray, depending on its original color, to remind
you that
PRINT ON ALL PLATES is applied.
To cancel
PRINT ON ALL PLATES, select the option again.
Usually
PRINT ON ALL PLATES is applied only to small areas such as additional printer’s
marks or lines of text. Do not apply
PRINT ON ALL PLATES to large areas as this can
flood the printing press with excess ink.
Printing & color separating: technical details
Color separating
MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 converts RGB, HSV and grayscale colors to
CMYK for printing. Because the inks in printers are not pure color, some color
correction is required. For example, theoretically 100% red in RGB is 100% magenta
and 100% yellow in CMYK. In practice, less magenta is required to get the right color.
Also, in dark colors and grays, black ink can replace a proportion of CMY. Color
correction in MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 is entirely automatic.
CMYK colors do not need color correction and so are usually printed without
modification. The exception is areas where transparency has been applied. This is
described in detail below.
Transparency and color separations
Transparency helps create some outstanding illustration, but can also cause
unexpected results when color separating because PostScript imagesetters, and
printers do not directly support transparency. Areas covered by objects with
transparency applied are output as an RGB bitmap. This bitmap is then color
corrected and separated to CMYK. This process happens even to objects with 100%
transparency.
This means that in objects under a transparent object: