Separating a colour job into the elements required for printing. See Four Colour Process Printing.
Process by which a continuous tone colour image is separated into the four process colours (CMYK) for print production.
The process that allows continuous-tone colour artwork to be broken into four colours (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) for reproduction in lithographic presses (full colour printing).
Conversion of RGB colour information into its cyan, magenta, yellow and black constituents. 
1. Technique of using a camera, scanner or computer to divide continuous-tone colour images into four halftone negatives.
Process of splitting a full-colour image into separate colour layers to allow professional printing. Typically the minimum number of colours is three (cyan, magenta, and yellow) plus black. Graphics software is used to analyse the image and produce four different colour pictures that will recreate the original image when overlaid. This process ...
Process by which an image is separated into the component colours for multi colour print production.