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Understanding Spot Color Prints

Process and spot color print are the two most widely recognised color forms in the printing industry. You will use one or the other for your printing project, depending on whether you desire high-quality, long-lasting business cards or exquisitely haptic soft-touch brochures. Originally published on https://tshirtplus.com.au/blog/spot-color-prints/

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Understanding Spot Color Prints

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  1. Understanding Spot Color Prints: Beyond the Basics of Printing www.tshirtplus.com.au

  2. Process and spot color print are the two most widely recognised color forms in the printing industry. You will use one or the other for your printing project, depending on whether you desire high-quality, long-lasting business cards or exquisitely haptic soft-touch brochures. Printing Printed materials are essential for virtually every industry. Custom labels, packaging, transportation materials, and more must be printed to maintain your business. Whether you’re using a home label printer or a professional label printer, you may have observed color differences between print jobs. This may result from the color process your printer employs – process color or spot color

  3. Process Color The most prevalent printing technique involves process colors, a method of mixing inks to produce colors during the printing process itself. Use of Process Colors Process printing is optimal for colorful, detailed designs. Photographs or photo-quality images print much better with process colors than spot colors. Process printing can also be practical and economical for small to medium-sized print tasks.

  4. Spot Colors In contrast to the combination of four standard colors used to create process colors, spot colors are produced by laying down pigments in a single pass. Use of Spot Colors When color precision is crucial for your brand, you must use spot colors. Because spot colors typically use pre-mixed pigments or adhere to a specific standard, such as the Pantone Matching System, color variations are much less likely than process colors.

  5. Conclusion Both process and spot colors are commonly used in the printing industry, but their application depends on the needs of the printing project and the desired outcome. Spot color printing should be considered if you want to reproduce the precise colors of your logo or achieve color consistency across all of your projects.

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