Sizing Up Software

A lowly apprentice production's PlateMaker 2.0 plug-in for Photoshop allows any number of custom color, spot color or varnish plate separations to be produced from a Photoshop image, and saves the separations in one file. Without the plug-in, Photoshop limits users to CMYK or grayscale separations; special color effects must be created with manual stripping or a duplicate of the document. Product Manager Greg Hatem relates expanded custom and spot color capability is of particular benefit to flexo printing.