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Spot color vs CMYK for a 2-color job, the difference was huge
I had a client in Denver who needed 5,000 business cards with their logo in a deep orange. I set it up in CMYK thinking it was fine, but the press kept giving me this muddy brownish orange. After 3 failed proofs, the printer suggested we switch the logo to a Pantone spot color. Same file, same paper, and the orange came out SO much brighter and punchier. The spot color cost an extra $45 on the run, but it saved us from a reprint that would've been $200+. Has anyone else had a spot color save a job that CMYK just couldn't handle?
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noahw538d ago
Had the same thing happen with a navy blue on some yard signs last year. CMYK kept printing it with a purple tint no matter what I tried, but switching to a spot color gave me the exact deep blue the customer wanted on the first run. The upcharge stung a little, but way less than eating the cost of a bad batch.
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