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Getting Four-Color Separations
6. Click the Print button.
If all goes well, four pieces of paper, one for each of the four CMYK chan-
nels, print. If you’re printing a grayscale, duotone, tritone, or quadtone
image, you get one to four pieces of paper, one for each color used. If
that doesn’t happen, something’s amiss, and it’s time for troubleshoot-
ing. Be sure to take these laser separations with you when you hand
over your file to the service bureau or offset printer.
Table 1-3 Output Options
Option What It Does Recommendation
Calibration
Bars
Prints an 11-step grayscale
bar outside the image area
to gauge how accurately the
shades are being printed.
When printing separations, this
option prints a gradient tint bar
and color bar.
Select this option.
Registration
Marks
Prints crosshair and target
marks outside the image area,
allowing you to line up the four
plates or pages.
Select this option.
Corner Crop
Marks
Adds crops marks at the cor-
ners of the image to indicate
where to trim the image.
Select this option.
Center Crop
Marks
Adds crop marks at the center
of each side of the image to
indicate where to trim the
image.
Select this option.
Emulsion
Down
Emulsion is the side of the film
that’s light sensitive. Allows the
film to be printed with the emul-
sion side down.
Leave this option dese-
lected for laser separations.
When the service bureau
or offset printer prints the
separations to film or plates,
it may select this option.
Negative Prints black as white and white
as black, and every other color
inverts accordingly.
Leave this option dese-
lected for laser separations.
When the service bureau
or offset printer prints the
separations to film or plates,
it may select this option.
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