Wayne Printing – Frequently Asked Questions About Wayne Printing

Process color is a common shortened form of the term "four-color printing process." Process color (and similar terms) refers both to a method of reproducing colored images on printing presses and to the specific ink colors used. Other ways of referring to this printing process include "four color," "CMYK," "full process" and "full color."

The four-color printing process is based on mixing pigments of the four following colors in order to make other colors: cyan, magenta, and yellow, plus black (abbreviated as "K" for "key"). Using black ink provides shadow detail and reduces the amount of the primary colors needed to print dark hues.

Full-color printing relies on qualities of color mixing and human color perception. It is the dominant method of printing that is capable of reproducing a full range of color, required for reproducing color photographs in newspapers, books and magazines.

Your image can still be printed at less than 300dpi, however the print quality will be sacrificed significantly. We recommend at least 300dpi to obtain the best print quality.

We welcome any of your personally created artwork. In order to process your job more quickly, please adhere to the guidelines below:

Logos or Special artwork should be provided in the following:

Formats: TIFF, JPEG or EPS (either PhotoShop or Illustrator)
The Resolution of the file must be a minimum of 300 dpi.

Documents must include:

All Pictures / Images used in document
All Fonts used in document

Acceptable File Formats:

Quark 5.0 or 6.0
Adobe Illustrator - up to version CS4
Adobe InDesign - up to version CS4
Adobe PhotoShop - up to version CS4
Adobe PDF

Microsoft Office (Word, Publisher, PowerPoint and Excel)
Logos or ClipArt placed in Microsoft Office documents need to be bundled with the document (sent to us) as well as the fonts used.

Acceptable File Size & Transfer Process:

You may provide your files on CD, ZIP disc or USB Key.
You may e-mail your file to us. The size limit for files e-mailed is 10mb.
You may upload your file directly to our FTP site This has no size limit

If any element on your document layout makes contact with the document border you will have to use bleed. The trick is to place the element so that it goes over the border where the document will be cropped after printing.

The term bleed is used for all objects overlapping the border of your document.

In short, printers and monitors produce colors in different ways.

Monitors use the RGB (red, green, blue) color model, which usually supports a wider spectrum of colors. Printers use the CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black) color model, which can reproduce most—but not all—of the colors in the RGB color model. Depending on the equipment used, CMYK generally matches 85–90% of the colors in the RGB model.

When a color is selected from the RGB model that is out of the range of the CMYK model, the application chooses what it thinks is the closest color that will match. Programs like Adobe Photoshop will allow you to choose which color will be replaced. Others may not.

In printing terms, a proof is a one-off copy of your document after all modifications and printing setup processes have been completed. It is your last and best opportunity to make sure that the print job comes out the way you want. By carefully inspecting the proof, you can help us assure an accurate, flawless delivery of your print job on the first run.