When it comes to designing, it is all about concept, layout, font and typography. The other very important thing is colour.
There are two basic usage of colour when designing print artwork.
1. CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black)
CMYK is a 4 colour process. Four colours (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black) are mixed and used together to make any colour in the colour spectrum . The most common use is photographic images. A photograph consists of thousands of colour pixels. The combination of the 4 process colours, CMYK, can produce all the necessary colours in a photographic image. With the use of full colour photographic images in a design, CMYK printing process is the most common option.
2. Spot Colour Process
The Pantone standard is the most dominant spot colour system used in Europe and the United States. Over the years Pantone added a few extra impressive ranges for more interesting and exclusive print results, for example the Metallic Formula Guide.
Spot colours are mostly used for vector graphics. Examples are logos, typography or any other line drawings.
The image below show, when using solid colour in print, a spot colour will produce a smoother print, compared to CMYK.
The difference between CMYK (left) and Spot (right) printed as solid colours.
Spot colours can be used for images. The image will be monochromatic or shades of more spot colours.
Here at Printhouse Corporation, both these colour processes can be accomodated on a Litho Printing Press.
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