This standardization between the art department and production department has many benefits, such as ease of designing, ease of color separations and consistency from design to press.
Most screen-print shops carry a set of stock inks, and it is in their best interest to create a custom color palette based on these inks. This can add a good amount of time to the art and separation process, resulting in a loss on the job depending on the amount of time needed to fix the artĪn overlooked and highly underrated feature of CorelDRAW and other graphics applications is the ability to create custom color palettes. Whether completely designed by one person or elements added from various sources (such as client supplied art, clip art, etc.), these varying sources means the designer will need to edit and fix the art in order to properly color separate it. There are many reasons why this happens mostly, it is due to the designer using black from various color palettes. I’ve heard many stories of getting ready print separations only to find multiple black plates. Working with color in this fashion can, and usually does, cause issues later down the road in the design process, especially when it’s time for color separations. This practice is most likely due to the lack of knowledge of color, color models and ultimately the software in general.
With over 20-plus years in the apparel decorating industry, I have had my fair share of customer and so-called “professionally” designed art supplied to me where the colors came from various palettes and color models. It can be overwhelming as well as confusing to the novice user and designer, and ultimately can cause issues during the entire production process from designing to color separations to printing. With the release of the Corel Graphics Suite X5, specialty Roland color palettes were introduced as well as the Document and Color Styles Palettes.
The CMYK library alone consists of over 45 various color palettes. That is a wide assortment of color palettes. The Corel Graphics Suite offers these basic default palettes as well as a large assortment of palettes that contain colors based on titles and themes such as nature, skin tones, candy, summer, etc. Graphics applications usually come with predetermined or stock color palettes, covering the basic RGB, CMYK and Pantone Matching System color models (Figure 1).
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