Desktop Colour Separation (DCS) is an enhanced Encapsulated PostScriptfile format that was introduced by Quark, Inc.[1] It is now primarily used for specialised graphics work particularly images that use multiple channels, e.g. when applying different spot colours to each part of a greyscale image.[2]
In DCS a CMYK graphic is separated into five files; a main file and four pre-separation files, one for each CMYK process colour.[2][1] The main file contains an indication of which separation files are needed and where to find them, together with a composite image information which is used to print a composite of the image.[1][3]
Operationedit
When output to a PostScriptprinter, the printer driver reads the information in the main file and assigns the cyan, magenta, yellow, and black files to their corresponding separation files.
Referencesedit
^ abc. Adobe Systems Inc. Archived from the original on 2016-08-22.
^ abBear, Jacci Howard. . About.Com. Archived from the original on 2009-08-26. Retrieved 2009-11-03.
^Powers, Lynn (1993-12-10). . Adobe Inc. Archived from the original on 2016-08-22.
External linksedit
Colour Separation, PrintWiki.
at the Wayback Machine (archived August 22, 2016), Lynn Powers, Adobe Inc., 1993-12-10
May 02, 2024
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