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New and improved commercial printing features

The commercial printing features in Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 have been significantly improved to make it easier to get professional output of your publications.

Composite CMYK output   Publisher will print composite CMYK PostScript (PostScript: A page description language used by printers and imagesetters.) output that can be used with third-party trapping (trap: To create small overlaps where two differently colored objects abut on a printed page.) and page-imposition programs.

Easier to create and print separations   New advanced print settings let you create separations directly from the Print dialog box. Now you can do the following:

• Print plates for a single process-color (process colors: The four transparent inks (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) that are used in commercial printing to produce color photographic images and a wide range of solid colors.) or spot-color (spot color: Premixed color matched to a standard color guide, such as PANTONE.) ink.
• Set custom line screen frequencies (line screen frequency: The fineness or coarseness of a halftone screen represented by lines per inch (LPI). The higher the LPI, the finer the dots used in a halftone screen. A finer halftone screen shows greater picture detail.) and line screen angles (line screen angle: The angle of the lines of dots for each of the halftone screens that are used in process color printing. The standard angles are 15 degrees for cyan, 75 degrees for magenta, 0 degrees for yellow, and 45 degrees for black.) for individual spot colors.
• Convert spot colors to process colors in the Print dialog box.

Optimized RGB to CMYK conversion   You can now get more accurate CMYK (CMYK: A color model for commercial printing that produces a wide range of colors by mixing varying percentages of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black inks.) values for gradients (gradient: A gradual progression of colors and shades, usually from one color to another color, or from one shade to another shade of the same color.) and graphics (graphic: A nontext design element, such as a photograph, drawing, or shape.) that have been scaled or rotated.

Enhanced color controls   You now have more control over how you create and manage colors and inks in your publication. It's now much easier to change or replace inks and colors. You can also choose to maintain tint or luminosity when replacing one spot-color ink with another.