Contrast five-color printing and four-color printing
Generally, the printers in print shops use four-color printing, which can meet the general printing needs, but if you encounter the needs of spot color printing, four-color printing will be pale and weak. So what is five-color printing? What is the difference between five-color printing and four-color printing? Biyin Bazaar summarizes the definition of four-color printing and five-color printing, and at the same time, let's take a look at the comparison between the two.
Four-color printing:
The basic colors of printing are: black, blue, red, yellow (K, C, M, Y), and the four-color printing in the printing industry is made of these four primary colors.
Five-color printing:
One of the colors in the five-color printing is the spot color, that is, the 4 colors that need to be adjusted are the four colors we usually call CMYK, if you print the spot color, it must be more expensive than the four-color one, because the colorist wants to tune out a color for you.
Theoretically, these 4 base colors can be matched with each other to get any color in the world. However, different products pursue different packaging effects, and often professional designers will formulate another color to highlight a certain color, making the picture more realistic and three-dimensional. Five-color printing is actually adding an extra special color to these 4 base colors, that is, spot colors (4C spot colors). The industry's standard spot color color ticket number, senior designers in the file clearly put forward the color ticket number, so that the printing house according to the spot color color ticket number to find the corresponding color as a printing standard. In addition, spot color inks are also sold in the market, but powerful business card printing factories can also use 4 primary color inks to make spot colors, and often the spot colors and standard color tickets are close to 99.7%.
Advantages and disadvantages of five colors over four colors:
Advantages: The printing effect is more realistic and three-dimensional
Disadvantages: 1. The unit price is higher than that of 4 colors. 2. Before printing, the corresponding spot color ink should be prepared.
The four most basic colors of printing are black, cyan, magenta, and yellow. According to the hiding power from large to small, the four color groups arranged on the printing press are also arranged in this order, but if you encounter a special color, you can not achieve the printing effect (such as gold and silver) with ordinary four colors, or the spot color set by the customer, you must add a group of colors after the four color groups printed, which is called five-color printing. In some cases, the fifth color group can be used to add a layer of varnish to add surface gloss, the advantage is that the improvement of the printing effect is very obvious, since the fifth color is used, the printing effect is full of layers, and the effect is realistic. The disadvantage may be the price, according to the number of printing colors to calculate the price, the price of one more color will go up!
The above is the introduction and comparison of five-color printing and four-color printing, do you understand the difference between the two?