Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Corporate Color Printing Now

By Jan Longbrake


Rather than in black and white, the reproduction of an image or text (or both) in color is called--Color Printing. This is not that simple. Reproducing color images and text can be through the different and several techniques. From this article, you will know two of these methods and which process to use when.

How is Four-color process done?

Printing items that have a full spectrum of colors, such as a color photograph, will be using four-color process. Along with black are the three primary colors - cyan, magenta and yellow to constitute the four colors or CMYK. A bigger and brighter color range can be provided with the six-color process, which is the newer full-color printing method and adding orange and green to the CMYK palette. The process colors are the colors that are being produced.

The Spot-color process

To produce different colors the four-color process mixes four colors together in different combinations, while the spot color ink is used alone, rather than mixing it to make various colors. In fact, it can be used in combination with four-color inks

Nearly unlimited in range are the Spot color inks , while coming in a more varied than the color being produced by the four-color process. Colors from pastels to metallic's and other finishes can be printed using Spot color inks. Spot colors are the term used to refer the colors produced.

The process color printing is more expensive than Spot printing; but spot colors are not appropriate for any material that includes a photo or a wide range of colors.

Knowing which process to use when...

Choose process colors if : - When using full color photos -Your printing cost could get more expensive than your process color printing, if you do not use more than two spot colors. - Your document may include many of the different graphics along with the many shades

The use of spot colors are:

- One spot color and black is included in these photos and not having full color photos. - You are not demanded to have a color that CMYK can't produce properly. Like, when your logo is going to be printed over and over. - You are to provide more vibrant colors. - If you likely want to use metallic or fluorescent colors. - if you want to have a large printing area, such as a poster. Compared with process colors, spot color cover well.

You can use spot colors and process colors together, if:




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