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-> What is CMYK?
-> What is RGB?
-> What is a spot colour?
-> What is a PMS colour?
-> What is Resolution?
-> What is DPI?
-> What are the main types of images?

What is CMYK?
CMYK stands for the ink colours Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black - these are the four process colours. CMYK is a colour model in which all colours are described as a mixture of these four process colours. CMYK is the standard colour model used in offset printing for full-colour documents. Because such printing uses inks of these four basic colours, it is often called four-colour printing.
What is RGB?
RGB is the colours of light - Red, Green, Blue. Therefore on a computer monitor all colours are made using the RGB system. One of the most difficult aspects of desktop publishing in colour is colour matching -- properly converting the RGB colours into CMYK colours so that what gets printed looks the same as what appears on the monitor.
What is a spot colour?
Refers to a method of specifying and printing colours in which each colour is printed with its own ink rather than a composite of the process colours (CMYK). Spot colour printing is effective when the printed matter contains only one to three different colours, but it becomes prohibitively expensive for more colours. spot colours are used when you want to print a specific shade, metallic or a fluorescent colour.

What is a PMS colour?
PMS stands for Pantone Matching System, a popular colour matching system used by the printing industry to print spot colours. Most applications that support colour printing allow you to specify colours by indicating the Pantone name or number. This assures that you get the right colour when the file is printed, even though the colour may not look right when displayed on your monitor.
PMS works well for spot colours but not for process colours, which are generally specified using the CMYK colour model.
What is Resolution?
Refers to the sharpness and clarity of an image. The term is most often used to describe monitors, printers, and bit-mapped graphic images. For example, a 300-dpi (dots per inch) printer is one that is capable of printing 300 distinct dots in a line 1 inch long. This means it can print 90,000 dots per square inch.
What is DPI?
Abbreviation of dots per inch, which indicates the resolution of images. The more dots per inch, the higher the resolution. A common resolution for laser printers is 600 dots per inch. This means 600 dots across and 600 dots down, so there are 360,000 dots per square inch.
What are the main types of images?
There are two main types of images 1) vector graphics and 2) bit-mapped graphics.
Vector Images use a composite of lines and nodes while bit-mapped graphics use a composition of a pattern of dots (sometimes called raster graphics). Programs that enable you to create and manipulate vector graphics are called draw programs (freehand is a draw program), whereas programs that manipulate and create bit-mapped images are called paint programs (photoshop is a paint program).

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