Color Prints
Four Color Printing and Knowing a Color Printer’s Standards
Four color printing is easily today’s printing standard. You can enjoy rich, brilliant colors that would produce a life-like quality for your prints. From offset printing products to digital, large format prints, you can observe just how four color printing works best to bring out the vividness of colors.
Through the hands of a professional printer, you should expect nothing less than prints produced in full definition. Color accuracy should be observed too in order to maintain the integrity of your original designs. Through color accuracy, you get the closest hues as possible present in your print as with your digital design.
Color Qualities You Should Observe in Your Prints
1. Purity
• Purity in colors means that you get the perfect hues for your prints. The colors shouldn’t be flat or muddy if they weren’t meant to be that way. Colors need not looked washed out or toned down, unless you were going for that effect.
• A printing company would observe that such prints can be carefully processed and maintained with a printer’s expertise in offset printing and four-color printing as well.
2. Accuracy
• As said earlier, your colors should come as close as possible to your original design. While printers do not guarantee a 100% color match because a digital file and a paper are two different medium, colors should still substantially embody and replicate the colors of your photos or images.
• Accuracy is achieved through the calibration of printing presses and all the automated equipment necessary to produce your prints.
Assessing a Printer’s Color Printing Capabilities
However, you cannot readily assume that printers are all the same. In the same manner, you cannot readily assume that the print quality is the same as with any printing company’s output.
You can set the standards you want for your print jobs, provided that you know the details involved in obtaining a great print. There are many ways you can assess whether a printer is truly capable and proficient.
You can take in the testimonials of other people and use that to gain confidence in your printer. However, you can also take in these pieces of information to safely guide you through printing and help you make the best decisions.
Here are some tips you observe to know whether you can expect a great and color print out from your printer.
1. Paper Quality
• Not all papers can produce the same results. Some are colored, while others are plain white. But when it comes to the standards of printing, nothing beats a bright, white quality paper that is also smooth and opaque.
• A 12pt. cover paper is good, but why stop there if you can obtain a printing company with a 14pt. cover paper. A heavy set paper is good because it would hold up well for a long period of time. The opacity would greatly allow light to bounce off and bring out the colors of your print effectively.
• Coated paper stocks are needed for colorful prints as it allows the colors to sit well without any dot gain.
2. Finishes
• Finishes are important for your color prints since it brings the vibrancy of your colors. It does not just add luster, but it makes prints truly more brilliant. See if your four color printing company can provide you with an array of finishes from gloss or Aqueous, UV or high gloss and even matte if you desire that soft, dull finish.
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