When you effectively trap the color, there will be no white gaps in the print due to misregistration.

• On the third art board of your Illustrator file, give yourself an “A” with 100% cyan fill and 100% magenta, 40% cyan stroke
• With the rectangle tool, hold down Shift to create a square large enough that the entire “A” can overlap in front of it
• Fill the square with 100% magenta
• Copy the “A” and turn the first “A” into an outline (shift + command + o), and outline the stroke (object > path > outline stroke)
• Use the shape builder tool and hold Option while clicking on the fill of the first “A” to knock it out
• Delete the stroke of the copied “A” and place it inside the first “A,” to create a singular, unified letter

That’s the first part! The next part is to create a “close-up” of the “A” to demonstrate further what trapping looks like.

• Use the rectangle tool, and following the same method above, create another, smaller square and layer it over a portion of the “A.” The square should have no fill but a black, 2 pt. stroke
• Copy all elements and create a clipping mask (command + 7) of the graphics so that only what is inside the small box is showing, and scale it up
• Using the Pen tool, connect the corners of the small square on the original graphic to the corners of the clipped graphic, adding black strokes to the lines
• Add a white fill to the box and connected lines, lowering the opacity to 50%

Come back later for part 4, Misregistration!