Colour Control Settings

Table 1. Bentley Advanced Map Finishing Colour Control Settings
Setting	Effect
File menu	Provides options to load, save, import, or export a colour table.
Plates > Configure	Opens the Plates dialog box which is used to control the process plates.
Colour Chart	Represents theMicroStation colour table that approximates the colours defined by the Bentley Advanced Map Finishing colour table. Click on the colour square to select it. The colour highlights and displays the colour number. Colour types are denoted by letters: S = Spot ss = Sub-Spot R = Registration B = Background Colours without a symbol are deemed Process type colours.
Type	Specifies the colour type and defines additional dialog box settings. Each of the 255 regular colours (excluding background) can be one of four types: Process. Spot-coloured elements are printed to a separate plate as 100% ink. Colour scales affect the percentage, though Sub-Spot colours can be used to create tints of a spot colour. Sub-Spot colours are associated with spot-colours and can be defined as a percentage of the parent spot colour. Registration-coloured elements appear on all plates at 100%. If the default registration and crop marks provided by Bentley Advanced Map Finishing are not suitable, custom crop marks can be designed and drawn. See Separations Tab for details on how to output plate name.
Cyan/Magenta/Yellow/Black	Describes the intensity of ink used in a four-colour process to print each colour. The values range from 0.0 to 1.0, where 0.0 is no ink and 1.0 is solid ink. Super saturated colours can be defined by adding extra black, but these colours only print as defined when separated and not on a composite colour printer. These settings are not valid for type Sub-spot. Example, if settings were Cyan = 0.1, Magenta = 0.2, Yellow = 0.4 and Black = 0.25, then an element printed in that colour would be made up of 10% ink on the Cyan plate, 20% on the Magenta plate, 40% on the Yellow and 25% on the Black.
Overprint	Specifies whether or not to overprint. See Overprint and Knockout. This setting is only valid for types Process and Spot.

Table 2. Additional Spot Type Settings
Setting	Effect
Name	Lists the plate name.
ID	Lists the unique file names for each of the plates generated by the separation.
Angle	Determines the angle of the screen dot pattern for the particular plate. If the Spot colour only contains 100% colours, no particular value is required. If Sub-Spots or grayscales of the Spot colour are used, the angle should fit in with other angles used in the separation.
Allow knockout	Allows the spot colour to be overprint by other colours. See Overprint and Knockout.

Table 3. Sub-Spot Type Settings
Based on	Defines the spot colour plate on which the Sub-Spot colour prints.
...at	Determines the intensity of the tint of the original spot colour.