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Color Modes – Models of tones based upon different coordinate values, such as; hue, luminance, and saturation (HLS); hue, saturation and brightness (HSB); hue, saturation and value (HSV); red, green and blue (RGB); and cyan, magenta, yellow and black (CMYK).

Color Separation – Color separations consist of artwork that has been split into component plates of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black in preparation for process printing (CMYK) or into the required number of plates for spot color printing. Each separation prints a single process or spot color. Digital files can be composite separations (all information in one file) or pre-separated (each color on its own page).

Posterization – Process of reducing the number of colors in an image. Used to aid in speeding the RIP process for solid-color images, it can greatly affect specific color integrity. This occurs automatically when digital signage occurs and is part of the software. Alterations can not be made. This is why colors may appear different on differnent stocks etc.

RIP (Raster Image Processor) – Software and/or hardware used to convert data to bitmap information for processing on a PostScript printer or other digital device. This computer-calculation-intensive process determines 360,000 combinations and color placements to print every square inch of a 300 DPI image using CMYK process colors. Each process color is a color separation. This action is referred to as RIPing or Rasterization.