Deck 11: Preparing a Document for Prepress and Printing

Question 1

Illustrator is delivered with non-process color inks.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Color separations isolate each of the four process colors on its own printing "plate."

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The color of your work on-screen will never be an exact match to the printed version.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Illustrator is designed to meet the needs of both the designer and the professional printer.

Question 5

Many of the colors in RGB mode that are out of the range of the CMYK gamut have high saturation and brightness values.

Question 6

Illustrator is great for producing your own prints from your desktop printer, but its not designed to interface with the complexities of commercial printing and prepress.

Question 7

You can create trim marks in Illustrator.

Question 8

What we perceive as an object's color is based on the amounts of red, green and blue light that are reflected or transmitted and the color that combination of light produces.

Question 9

The range of colors in the visible spectrum is infinite.

Question 10

Because orange is one of the distinct colors in the visible spectrum, it follows logically that orange is a primary color of light.

Question 11

Process tints are created with various combinations of CMYK inks.

Question 12

Whenever light strikes any object, varying amounts are always reflected, absorbed and transmitted.

Question 13

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

Question 14

When a document is printed with four colors and a spot color, the spot color is output to the separation plate that is the closest in color to the spot color.

Question 15

Illustrator is a reliable solution for making process tints.

Question 16

It is through the "bending" or breaking down of white light that we perceive color.

Question 17

All light waves are visible to the human eye.

Question 18

Since the color gamut for non-process inks far exceeds that of CMYK, non-process inks are a great solution for printing vivid and intense colors.

Question 19

If you have created a document in RGB mode and you convert to CMYK mode, Illustrator will automatically replace the out-of-gamut colors.

Question 20

Color in printed images is rendered using CMYK inks.When light strikes the printed sheet of paper, the color image is reflected off of the CMYK inks.

Question 21

In the visible spectrum, scientists can pinpoint where red light becomes orange light.

Question 22

The CMYK color gamut is substantially larger than the RGB gamut.

Question 23

The lightest process tints are produced with high percentages of ink.

Question 24

The numbers that you enter when specifying percentages of CMYK are exactly the percentages that will be output when the illustration goes to the printer.

Question 25

Color consistency on press is a major benefit of using non-process inks.

Question 26

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

Question 27

The visible spectrum is white light broken down, and the colors in the visible spectrum can be broken down.

Question 28

Cyan, magenta, and yellow are produced by removing one of the additive primary colors.

Question 29

Illustrator is a powerhouse print production utility.

Question 30

You can only set the bleed specification when you first set up the document.

Question 31

Crop marks are short, thin lines that you can use to define areas of the page that you want trimmed after the document is printed.

Question 32

It would be correct to say that Illustrator is a sophisticated utility for outputting color separations.

Question 33

Red, green, and blue light combine to produce other colors.

Question 34

Process tints are reliably consistent on a printing press, which means that the colors you use in a magazine's masthead will consistently be the same month after month.

Question 35

Sunlight contains a very specific total number of waves - so specific that scientists have named them, such as gamma rays.

Question 36

Your monitor is a reliable indicator of how an image will look when it prints.

Question 37

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

Question 38

You can create crop marks in Illustrator.

Question 39

Offset printing uses RGB and process colors only.

Question 40

A professional printer is contractually responsible to match - within a reasonable tolerance - the process tints that you specify for your work.

Question 41

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

A)cyan
B)magenta
C)yellow
D)black

Question 42

Which of the following is a correct "rich black?"

A)50% cyan / 50% black
B)100% cyan / 100% black
C)100% cyan / 50% black
D)50% cyan / 100% black

Question 43

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

A)cyan
B)magenta
C)yellow
D)black

Question 44

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

A)a drawing tool and a database
B)a drawing tool and a photo manipulation tool
C)a drawing tool and a page layout solution
D)a drawing tool and a word processing program

Question 45

When light strikes an object, which of the following can occur?

A)reflection, absorption, and transmission
B)hue, saturation, and brightness
C)RGB
D)CMYK

Question 46

In the world of printing, CMYK inks are known as what?

A)process inks
B)spot colors
C)Pantone colors
D)RGB colors

Question 47

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

A)it would appear as a rainbow
B)it would be white
C)it would be invisible
D)it would be black

Question 48

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

A)it would appear as a rainbow
B)it would be white
C)it would be invisible
D)it would be black

Question 49

In Illustrator, where do you specify process tints?

A)Color panel
B)Color picker
C)Color panel and Color picker
D)Neither the Color panel nor the Color picker

Question 50

The scientific term for a rainbow is what?

A)additive primary colors
B)visible spectrum
C)hue, saturation, & brightness
D)subtractive primary colors

Question 51

Artwork that bleeds ____.

A)always lays outside of the crop marks on the sides that it bleeds
B)always lays outside of the crop marks on all sides
C)is positioned exactly at the trim line
D)is positioned exactly at the trim line on all sides

Question 52

The standard amount by which a bleed element must exceed the trim line is what?

A).125"
B).25"
C).5"
D).75"

Question 53

Red light and green light, when combined, produce light whose color could best be described as what?

A)yellow light
B)magenta light
C)cyan light
D)CMYK light

Question 54

Which of the following terms is not a reference to a non-process ink?

A)spot color
B)key color
C)fifth color
D)PMS color

Question 55

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

A)it would appear as a rainbow
B)it would be white
C)it would be invisible
D)it would be black

Question 56

Black ink is used to achieve all but which of the following in a printed image?

A)deep shadows
B)fine detail
C)improved contrast
D)highlights

Question 57

Blue light and green light, when combined, produce light whose color could best be described as what?

A)yellow light
B)magenta light
C)cyan light
D)CMYK light

Question 58

Red light and blue light, when combined, produce light whose color could best be described as what?

A)yellow light
B)magenta light
C)cyan light
D)CMYK light

Question 59

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

A)cyan
B)magenta
C)yellow
D)black

Question 60

Which of the following is the correct abbreviation for the resolution of a bitmap image?

A)DPI
B)PPI
C)LPI
D)RPI

Question 61

When light strikes an object, three things can occur: reflection, absorption and transmission.Explain absorption.

Question 62

What are the additive primary colors of light?

Question 63

For the most part, CMYK inks are which of the following?

A)reflective
B)absorbent
C)transmissive
D)solvent

Question 64

All light emitting devices, such as your television or your monitor, produce color based on which color model?

Question 65

Scientists refer to light waves that can be seen by the human eye as what?

Question 66

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?

Question 67

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

Question 68

The trim size of a document refers to what?
Case Based Critical Thinking
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Case 1
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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.

Question 69

Enter the appropriate word(s) to complete the statement.

In the figure above, Item 1 is a visual representation of light ____________________.

Question 70

Enter the appropriate word(s) to complete the statement.

In the figure above, item 3 is a visual representation of light ____________________.

Question 71

Define non-process inks.
Case Based Critical Thinking
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Case 1
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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.

Question 72

A good monitor can theoretically produce how many different colors?

A)more than 16,000
B)more than 160,000
C)more than 1.6 million
D)more than 16 million

Question 73

Enter the appropriate word(s) to complete the statement.

In the figure above, item 2 is a visual representation of light ____________________.

Question 74

When light strikes an object, three things can occur: reflection, absorption, and transmission.Explain reflection.

Question 75

Explain when a "bleed" is required, and why it is necessary.

Question 76

Scientists refer to the entirety of the sun's light as what?

Question 77

What is the manmade device that bends light waves?

Question 78

All of the natural light in our world comes from where?

Question 79

The team is producing a book of illustrations on pages that will be completely black.This will involve large areas of the page that are to appear as deep dark black.Mark tells the team to be sure to create rich black tints for these areas.Explain what that is and why it's useful.

Question 80

Define color gamut.