Understanding Overprints
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This article appeared in Issue 3 of InDesign Magazine.Hang around a print shop long enough and you’ll hear the term “overprint.” In the world of prepress, overprinting is a way to control how color-separated plates interact with each other. Specifically, in a four-color process job, all of the colors that you use on a page are broken down into percentages of four colors: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. A printing press imprints each color on a piece of paper, one after the other, as it runs through the press. Because of this process, certain considerations need to be made when color separations are made.
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