Screenprinting can be boiled down into 3 basic categories. Spot color, process color, or simulated process. Spot color utilizes specific solid colors ‘as is’ to create and color a design. Process color uses 4 industry standard colors, cyan, magenta, yellow and black, in specific mixed percentages in order to simulate full color, photographic reproductions . Simulated process is the combining of the two; using spot colors in a process-like manner.

This Canoe Design, (in the lower right above), was featured in a past Impressions magazine issue that illustrated combinations of screenprinting and embroidery.
The company that did the embroidery was the only one mentioned in terms of production, neither the printer or the artist (me) were included.

This type of printing mixes spot colors in a Process like attempt to create
blending and additional colors to produce a more realistic look.

Spot color is normally used when the actual colors are printed instead of blending from base colors That is not to say there isn’t any blending, but it usually tinting or shading.

Process color utilizes Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black to produce a rainbow of color blends. In many cases this process is used to get a more photographic look.

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