4- Colour Printing

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The recommendation includes

• Colour settings
  • CMYK equivalents for PMS spot colors (inks).
• Screens
  • Traditional halftone screens
    • Frequency
    • Angles
  • Stochastic screens
• Printing Order
• Overprinting

PMS-colors to CMYK

Solid PMS-colors can not be translated to CMYK - only simulated
Some simulations are quite close to the solid color standard while other colors are not
The result of the simulation is varying from one device to another and from one paper quality to another

International Specification for Orienteering Maps produced by the International Orienteering Federation
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This document has been written and coded by Peter Hornsby of Ashby Mapping
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Produced for the Ashby Mapping internet site on 20 November 1997 and 1 December 1999  ©1997-2000 Ashby Mapping
Revised 28 December 1999, 23 March 2000

Extracted from the 1999 report by Knut Olav Sunde ISOM/2000 Project Team