Spot Color as an alternativeWritten by Karen Nodalo
Color printing has been applied in most types of printing from commercial advertising to businesses. Budget is always to be considered in adjusting your expenses and allowance. Sometimes, this has been a common problem with graphic designers who are planning it out. Of course finest option would be to create designs and have them printed on nicest and outstanding colors. If your designer desires to cut short printing cost, he can choose an alternative like using Spot Color aside from newest CMYK color process. CMYK is not that expensive but Spot Color can be cheaper. Spot color is very appropriate for color printing who are in short for printing budget. Spot colors are also flexible just like CMYK so it is just perfect for color printing. Sometimes, printers fool around and print them out badly. For designers who are impatient, they would not even care to glance back and have second thoughts of scrapping it. Making out nice prints will shorten budget because you don’t have to waste more of your time and materials. Mind you, printers are expensive and still getting more expensive these days. Color printing and color systems have been made effective to ensure that you get prints just way you want them to be. Spot color uses Pantone Matching System (PMS) which is now very common for printing use. All colors that you see in printed materials go with different mixtures of colors. So just imagine how many colors were mixed up to make outstanding shades of colors. PMS have been applied to image editing and other kinds of layout designs.
| | Other printing applicationsWritten by Karen Nodalo
Challenging and inspiring. That’s what printing has been calling for in modern technology. Artists and graphic designers have their own exploits towards printing and graphic design. They have been merging their capabilities and creative ideas towards making out even solutions to designs. The breakthrough in inkjet prints plus breakthrough and advancement in designs have teamed up to make fabulous productions. They say two heads are better than one and it made sense. They have merged their ideas and knowledge to Great minds and designs have slipped in to make printing valuable and productive. Different design and technique were studied and based upon for printing selections. Designers and artist’s knowledge in color application are essential in applying different techniques. Of course, having basic knowledge is acceptable. How much more for those who have worked in line with profession? Printing has never set it’s limitations in printing. Almost any one in any kind of printing style can acquire it. In fact, it has been used nowadays by craftsmen. They have applied it in printing cloths. It’s not really printing in cloths or sheets. They have heir own way of designing painting and dyeing techniques.
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