Chapter 10. Spot Colors and Duotones: Special Inks for Special Projects

The fundamental problem with printing presses is that they can only print one color at a time. It's like pixels on a black-and-white screen: the color is either on or off. We may have a gloriously rich full-color image on screen, but we've got to be mighty clever to get that image out the back side of a printing press, and no matter what we do, there will be trade-offs involved.