Spot color artwork is the easiest type of artwork to print. You'll like it for your home business because it is an inexpensive way advertise on t-shirts, signs, and business cards; screen printers like it because it's easy print print process and pays well. To print spot color artwork onto film or vellum, the colors in the image itself need to be separated. If there are three colors in the design, you'll need three pieces of artwork, each of which only contains the area of a single color in the design.
Often, when you offer up your logo to
a printer, be it a screen printer or a print shop, they'll ask you for camera ready (camera-ready) artwork. That means you'll either have to provide the artwork yourself or pay them to separate it.
If you have Photoshop and want to create your own spot color separations, you can learn how in the Desktop Publishing Channel. Just search for Spot Color Separations.
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