

You will want a film for red and a film for yellow to create a screen for red and a screen for yellow. Imagine you have a design utilizing the spot colors red and yellow. You wouldn’t want elements that are colored red and yellow, for example, on a single film when creating spot color seps. Proper spot color separations result in each spot color in a design to print to an individual film.

This article discusses color separations intended for film output.

Screen printers output their separations to films using a RIP software through an inkjet printer. The top two utilized are “spot color” and “simulated process”. After a graphics art file is complete and approved the file may need preparation so that the printing of the film positive separations yield the proper results for direct screen printing, or at a minimum a review.Ĭolor separating for screen printing has a few categories.
