Thermal transfer plate color classification

Thermal transfer plate color classification

1 Introduction to thermal transfer plate color classification
Pantone color chart of thermal transfer plate color

Thermal transfer plate color classification refers to the decomposition of various colors on the original into four primary colors: yellow, magenta, cyan, and black; in computer printing design or graphic design image software, color separation is to convert the color mode of scanned images or other sources of images into CMYK mode.

2 Thermal transfer plate color classification-RGB mode
The general scanned image of thermal transfer plate color is in RGB mode. If it is to be printed, it must be separated into four colors: yellow, magenta, cyan, and black. This is the requirement for printing. If the image color mode is RGB, it is possible that only the K (black) plate has dots when output, that is, RIP (RIP is used to interpret computer image data as data required by film), and the color information of the image is only interpreted as gray when interpreted.

3 Thermal transfer plate color classification - CMYK mode
In Photoshop, the color separation operation of thermal transfer plate color classification is actually very simple: just convert the image color mode from RGB mode or Lab mode to CMYK mode.

The specific operation is to execute Image/Mode/CMYK. In this way, the color of the image is represented by the color material (ink), with 4 color channels.

4 Thermal transfer plate color - data output
When the image is output to the film, dots will be generated according to the color channel data, and divided into four color separation films of yellow, magenta, cyan and black.

The color separation of thermal transfer plate color we understand here is to separate the colors on the thermal transfer pattern of the product into independent cyan, magenta, yellow and black. It is not difficult to do this. When the four colors are printed on the thermal transfer printing film, the effect will be achieved.