Photoshop CS3 for Screen Printers- P19: The toolbox is the heart of Photoshop CS3, and where you’ll find the tools you need to create your artwork and perform editing tasks. From the toolbox you can access the selection tools, shape tools, type tools, Crop tool, and eraser tools. These are basic tools that any screen printer or graphic artist needs. | This page intentionally left blank. Chapter 29 Printing Color Separations So you ve created your design and are ready to print it out. You ve prepared the image for printing whether it is a one- or two-color spot color design a four- or five-color indexed color design or a multichannel process color design. For the spot color and indexed color prints you ve pulled the spot channels and tweaked them. For process prints you ve lightened saturated and corrected color contaminations. You ve used unsharp masking and done various tweaks on the design including color correction. You ve created the CMYK color separations created a white printer underbase and or highlight white plate if needed created spot colors if needed and you have the channels in the correct print order in the Channels palette. You might have even created a shirt color channel to see how the design will look on a particular color of shirt. In this chapter we learn how to print out the images that you ve created including spot color indexed color and process color images. There is an overlap in the directions to enable you to jump directly to the section that contains the information you need without having to read the rest of the chapter. Note In this chapter we work through the print configuration process using files I ve included on the companion CD. You ll have to adapt these settings to match the needs of the files you ll be working with in your own shop. 517 518 Part VI Printing Double-check the Color Settings Before we get started with the actual print process let s verify that the settings in the Color Settings dialog box are correct. These settings should be configured already but if you didn t start at the beginning of this book and read each chapter in order they might not be set properly. Tip If you worked through Chapter 5 you can skip this part. Work through the following steps to verify that you have the correct settings. These settings should have been configured before converting any .
