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Managing the CMYK conversion process

Managing the CMYK conversion process - Illustrator Tutorial

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Managing the CMYK conversion process

I've restored the saved version of Trapped blacks.ai found inside the 11_printing folder. In this exercise, I'm going to introduce you to the Print dialog box's Color Management options, which in stark contrast to those PostScript only Graphics options that we saw in the previous exercise, are extremely useful to a wide variety of users, by which I mean you. It's very possible, if not in this exercise, definitely in the next one, that I will pass along a trick that will increase the color quality of any documents that you're printing inside your home or office. However, before we visit the Print dialog box. I want to provide you with a little bit of background, where this specific document is concerned, and actually this goes for all print documents that you create inside of Illustrator. I'll go up to the File menu, and I'll drop down to the Document Color Mode and you can see that its specced to CMYK Color, which is ideal for a Print graphic. So, so far so good, most of the documents…

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