GETTING THE BEST FROM CMYK
You’ll get best reproduction from colours
that are made up from one or two inks (i.e.
magenta and cyan etc).
When using lighter shades, avoid tints that
contain less than 5% of either Cyan,
Magenta, Yellow or Black, as they usually
print much lighter than they appear on
screen and you may be disappointed with
the outcome. For best results, use tints
containing 5% to 30% where possible.
If possible, choose from the colours on our
complimentary colour chart. Apart from
printing your job for real, these colours will give you the closest approximation to how your
finished job will look, although some variation may occur.
Try to avoid large areas of the same colour too – that’s where colour variation becomes
most noticable. Best to use textures or images instead. And vignettes, or gradient fills are best
avoided – they have a tendency to show ‘banding’ and look unprofessional.
A NOTE ABOUT PROOFING
As part of our Hand Holding service we will supply
you with a colour proof. This is not colour
accurate. The proof acts as a guide as to how the
finished print will look, and should only be used
to check that text hasn’t reflowed and no items
are missing.
Our proofs cannot be relied upon to spot items
such as objects set to overprint, hairlines and
JPEGs/RGB/Duotone images (which may proof in
colour, but print in black and white).
If you need a more accurate proof, ask for details.
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