Exam 11: Preparing a Document for Prepress and Printing

Illustrator is a powerhouse print production utility.

Mark's team has been hired to design the magazine cover for a major city.It will be printed in color on glossy high-quality paper.The client says that every month the name of the magazine will print in the same royal blue color.Why does Mark feel it's imperative that the blue be specified as a spot ink as opposed to a process tint?

An object that absorbs blue light and reflects or transmits red light and green light would appear as what color?

The human eye can perceive more colors than any man-made device.

Red, green and blue light cannot be broken down or reduced to other colors.

Cyan, magenta, and yellow are known as what type of primary colors?

The team is designing black and white graphics for a newsletter.The graphics are colored only with tints of black ink.Mark expects the team to know to build the Illustrator graphics in what color mode?

When discussing the need to build bleeds, Mark mentions that the need for bleeds is based on the ever-true idea that "no machine is perfect." What is he talking about?

The scientific term for a rainbow is what?

If an object absorbed 100% of the light that strikes it, how would it appear?

In terms of color theory, what is the definition of true black?

List the colors of the visible spectrum. Case Based Critical Thinking ​ Case 1 ​ Mark has taken his team on an educational retreat: they visited print shops and web design houses to see firsthand how the various products that they create are manufactured.One of the things they discussed at length is color theory and various color models.Now that they've returned, Mark is keeping an eye and an ear on the group to see how much they've remembered.

Illustrator software can be best described as which of the following:

What are the additive primary colors of light?

Mark's department has just been contracted to create graphics for a PowerPoint presentation to be shown electronically at an upcoming conference.He expects that his designers know to create the Illustrator graphics in what color mode?

Illustrator is delivered with non-process color inks.

The four process inks can be used to print high-quality, stunning color images.

Paper for printing is manufactured to reflect RGB in equal amounts.Explain the significance of this.

Define color gamut.

If an object transmitted 100% of the light that strikes it, how would it appear?