How Do I Choose the Best Color Printing Process?

Color printing is a method of copying images or text by color (corresponding to black and white printing, or monochrome printing). It involves many steps, or conversion processes, to produce high-quality color reproduction.

Color printing

Color printing is a method of copying images or text in color (the only corresponding is black and white).

Here are some of the main steps in color printing, as well as some historical developments.

In the traditional color market, color printing technology is mainly divided into three categories, which are: production color, image color and commercial color. This classification is mainly determined by the customer's output needs. The production of color is suitable for mass production. In this field, higher production speed and lower unit printing cost are very important. Image color jobs must meet a high level of quality (usually accurate color matching is required), but

Color printing is the most accurate description of human behavior and products and services. It brings profound indelible first impressions and feelings to human beings, and its accurate expression can positively exert the greatest influence on human emotions and decisions, especially purchase decisions and

Recently, color printing technology combining low cost and high speed has found a very promising market. For many printing applications, if image color printing equipment with high image quality and single page printing cost is used for production, it is obviously a little overkill.

And this mysterious market is communication color

Ink printing color, there are generally two methods:

(1) Use

The requirements of modern design are diverse and full of change. If you want to express a more perfect mood, or a more special effect, just restoring the colors of some image originals cannot meet the required requirements. Therefore, the color plate process can be used to change or change the order and number of color plates to achieve special color design requirements.

1, black and white positives to two colors

With two sets of color plates, printing is done twice with a monochrome printer, or once with a color-changing printer. The two-color printing usually uses a combination of a monochrome black plate and a color plate that takes another color as a color tone. When the original effect is not very good, this two-color printing method often produces unexpected results.

2.Color plate replacement printing

Color plate replacement printing is to exchange a certain color plate in the printing design, causing the color plate to change. The purpose is to pursue special picture effects, which can often bring unexpected effects. Among the four versions of color separation, if two or three colors are exchanged and printed, the hue of the entire original layout will be changed, causing great changes. For example, the green tree is composed of yellow, blue, and a little black. If the yellow version is changed to red and the blue version is not changed, the green tree becomes purple. A similar approach is used in some poster designs and Occasional use in layout design will get novel effects.

The color positive to two-color printing is to separate two of the four editions, and only two editions are printed, that is, two-colour printing. A third color can be produced. For example, blue and yellow can be mixed to obtain green, and the shade of green is completely dependent on the ratio of the dots between blue and yellow. A normal color modulates a color picture and prints it with two color plates to achieve a special color effect.

In the design, occasionally using this printing method will produce a fresh feeling. It can be used to express the environment, atmosphere, time and season of the scene, and it can have special creative effects.

In order to find a special color tone effect, one of the four-color printing can be separated and the three-color printing can be retained. In order to make the effect of the picture clear and prominent, the three colors are often the main color with a heavier color and a darker tone.

You can also print one of the three editions as a spot color. For example, making a black edition into silver or gold produces a special color combination. Use the color plate conversion technique, which is suitable for exaggeration, emphasis and special effects.