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How Many Pantone Colours Are You Missing
Since 2010 over 750 new colours have been added to the Pantone guide, it is also important to note that Pantone books should ideally be replaced every 18 months as natural pigment fading, paper yellowing, page turning and low pigment colours can all affect figment fading.
In this article, we tell you how many colours you may be missing and why you need to update your Pantone colour guide.
- Clive Harper
Pantone - A Useful Tool To Ensure Optimal Lighting Conditions
Pantone - A Useful Tool To Ensure Optimal Lighting Conditions
An easy-to-use tool to establish if your lighting conditions are optimal for evaluating colour can be found at the back of most guides.
Also see our related article in Printing Tips regarding Metamerism.
- Clive Harper
Printing With Van Son Tough Tex Process Ink
One of the most difficult types of printing jobs in sheetfed offset is printing non-absorbing materials with conventionally drying inks (i.e. without any application of forced drying). However using the right materials and following the right procedure will enable the printer to obtain perfect results in both quality and efficiency.
- Clive Harper
Pantone Formula Guides & The Pantone Matching System
THE PANTONE® MATCHING SYSTEM
The PANTONE Matching System (PMS) is the best known ink colour mixing system in the world today. It was designed to provide colour standardisation for the entire printing industry. It also provided an array of colours to graphic designers. The printer was able to reproduce these colours by mixing together two or more standard basic colours.
- Clive Harper
How Printing Ink Dries
HOW PRINTING INK DRIES
Ink chemists have invented numerous ways to make ink dry, but litho and letterpress inks dry primarily by two methods; absorption and oxidation. Absorption means that the ink soaks into the stock like water into a sponge.
- Clive Harper
Printing With Security Inks
SECURITY INKS
Non-photo / non-repro blue
Before both black and white and colour copiers were around, when a printer asked for “nonphoto”or “non-repro” blue, they were referring to a light blue that was used to print paste-up sheets, boards or pre-printed forms. In the past, graphic artists had to position their designs by hand, making sure that they were positioned properly so that when they were photographed by a darkroom camera,
- Clive Harper
