color separation

  

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Traditional technique of separating a full color art or photograph by a camera or scanner into four halftone negatives (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) to reproduce all shades of colors in a commercial printing process. In computer based art or photography, the illustration software automatically produces color separations. Computer printers (dye sublimation, inkjet, laser, etc.) do not need color separation to make a print.

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