colour

Two-tone, hands-on

12 April 2011

In my last post, I demonstrated how effective and attractive can a two spot colour print be. Today, I want to share some behind-the-scenes of achieving similar result in a quick and easy tutorial. Choosing colours Let’s say our project is a tropical destination postcard and it will contain a photograph of a nice sandy [...]

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Putting Pantone in the mix

7 December 2010

As a designer — and possibly as Fred Bloggs too — it is likely that you’ve heard about Pantone. To make things clear, however, let’s remind ourselves what Pantone means in print business. In simple terms it means designers and clients can choose from over a thousand precisely formulated colours, each of them having its [...]

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Tabbed, Wire Bind A5 Conference Brochure

14 September 2010

The Legal Services Research Centre approached PrintHouse to design and print their conference brochure that was held this summer 2010 in Cambridge. They supplied all the text and images from Cambridge to choose from, to include in the conference brochure. The metal wire bind was an obvious choice. The advantages of wire binding is the [...]

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Colour management and ISO 12647 in printing

19 August 2010

There are no two ways about it – colour management is a complicated area. How do designers and those working in the graphics industry ensure that the results they get are what they are expecting, when they are, variously, viewing designs on screen; as proofs (which can produced in a number of ways); and as [...]

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Choose Your Colour (Part 1): CMYK vs. Spot Colour Printing

11 August 2009

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 [...]

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What is a Press Ready PDF?

3 August 2009

What is a press ready PDF? PDF stands for Portable Document Format and was created by Adobe Systems primarily for document exchange. Most people will be familiar with the 2D fixed layout when exchanging files over email or downloading information from the web. PDFs are used to encapsulate the complete description of a file by [...]

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