Specialty inks such as metallics and day-glow fluorescents also require spot colors. Other reasons a spot color may be used are when a page has heavy coverage of a single color, or when colors are required that fall outside the spectrum that CMYK can reproduce accurately. Two-color printing tends to be less expensive than four-color printing, but not always (digital presses can not use Pantone inks, and low-volume print runs are cheaper on digital presses). Spot color printing is used primarily for matching a color exactly, such as a company logo on stationery.Ī spot color is often chosen along with black (although sometimes with a second spot color) and the result is a two-color (2C) print run. Spot colors are solid inks (like cans of paint that you’d use to paint your house), not a simulation made of other colored dots. All full-color photographs require 4C process colors when printing. At normal viewing distance, the dots merge together and the eye sees green. To create green, for example, dots of cyan and yellow would be used. If you look at a 4C printed piece with a magnifying glass, you can actually see the individual dots of color. (“K” is used for “black” to avoid the confusion that “B” represents “blue”).īy combining varied amounts of these four inks, a wide range of colors can be simulated. The inks used in four-color printing are cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, or CMYK. Process colors are the four printing colors used in the majority of full-color pieces. RGB colors are used for on-screen viewing, and stand for Red Green Blue.
Spot colors are usually defined by the Pantone library, or Pantone Matching System (yes, that’s PMS for short). Process colors are known as CMYK colors or 4C (four color).
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