Color Book Production Using T E X
Michael D. Sofka · 1994
When typesetting a color book the goal is to produce a separate printer plate for each of the colors. The process of splitting the printed output into separate plates is called color separation. There are two color separation methods commonly used. Custom color separation selects colors from a standard pallet. A different plate is created for each color in the book. Process color separation separates the colors into the subtractive color components cyan, magenta and yellow, and creates a separate black plate by a process called undercolor removal. These four plates are used by a printing press to mix the colors on paper when the book is printed. Color separation is a more involved process than simply assigning RGB values to a desktop color printer. This article addresses the issues of professional color separation, and demonstrates how TEX with a suitable dvi driver can be used to produce quality custom and process color books.