SEPARATION NEGATIVES

n.photographic negatives used in the process of making color prints, as of a picture or painting. As printing presses cannot print full color from a single plate (one ink color), multiple plates are created, each of which prints a single color that combined will blend to reproduce the full color of the original art. To do this, the original art must be separated into individual colors by photographing it through special filters. These filters serve to eliminate all colors but one and produce three different negatives of