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What You Should Expect From Four Color Printing
Colors can make or break your images. If you pick the wrong colors or combine them in the wrong way, your prints might turn into a disaster. This is precisely the reason why four color is important in print production, business documents and more.
Finding an expert printing company would ably help you get the best colors possible.
• For any images, colors are very crucial. A slight change may mean an entire difference to the image that you desire.
• Your original design or colors can be translated unto your print in the colors that you truly want.
• Retain the same intensity and the brightness of the colors on your prints.
If you have experienced this and you do not know the reason why, then you must know the difference between RGB and CMYK color printing. So you would know what to do or instruct the next time you want to have something printed.
RGB Color Printing
• Light is made up of prisms of colors. Monitors and other image capturing devices such as cameras use light in order to reproduce such colors. The color profile it uses is RGB or Red, Green, and Blue.
• When you design your artworks and files, most of the time they are in RGB, unless of course you convert them to CMYK. CMYK will still give you the best possible stretch of colors and will consistently print the colors you want.
• Some colors in the RGB scheme cannot be translated well in the CMYK color gamut. Both color schemes have their limitations.
• If you want full color images and your image file is in RGB format, then you must first convert it to CMYK to have it printed. This is the standard for printing, especially for offset materials.
CMYK Color Printing
• Four color printing utilizes the following ink colors: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black. These colors combine with each are layered on top of another to blend and create a solid, multi-color print,
• CMYK are the process inks used for printing, whether it is digital or offset. Even your own desktop printers at home are set-up with these four colors.
• CMYK too occupies a different color gamut different from RGB, this is why files based on RGB needs to be converted to CMYK for printing. If you persist, color changes may occur unexpectedly. Bright and neon colors would come out dull and dark.
The Disclaimer
You must also be aware that no printing company can offer you 100% preciseness in color translation. We view colors in different ways. This can only be but controlled through expert manipulation of prints and total calibration, where your files are viewed in the same consistency from the computer unto the press.
Calibration also matters on paper, wherein presses adapt to the thickness of paper to produce the same consistency in color vibrancy and richness.
Some factors that affect prints are lighting. Natural daylight and light through fluorescent bulbs are different and can thus affect how your prints will come out. Thus, it may be said that it is better to print with a printer who generates prints solely at day or exclusively at night.
Remember these points and more for your four color printing jobs.
