Pull Back

Pull Backs are often called stay-away-traps, cutbacks or keepaways. Pull Backs are needed when objects, in rich black or rich spot color, are positioned on light backgrounds.

  • Rich Black is a composition of 100% black with a percentage of another separation. The result is a deeper look, making it more opaque.
  • Rich Spot Color is a composition of a dominating separation containing a percentage of any other separation. The result is a deeper and vivid color.

    For instance:

    • gold with yellow undercolor
    • a green spot separation with an additional green separation.

In both cases the lightest separations are pulled back to prevent revealing the lightest separations at the edges of the rich black or rich spot color, in case of registration errors.