Fluorescent Green - CMYK Print Help
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- mattwrightgd
Hi Guys i have a question for you, Dose any one know if its possible to archive a color close to a Fluorescent Green with CMYK? A client of mine really wants Fluro Green in his logo but its looking like doing a spot is going to go over his budget for what he wants to spend. S0 im just trying to find out if its possible to achieve a green close to a fluro with CMYK.
Just thought id ask on here to see if anyone has had any luck with doing this?
Thanks Matt
- fadein112
Alas not.
- monospaced2
Nope
- sandpipe-5
or just pantone (1color)
- Hayoth-1
Do you have a pantone to cmyk bridge book? That will help you find an accurate cmyk color but you wont be able to get close to a florescent without going pantone or metallic pantone.
- Neons/fluorescents aren't in the cmyk bridge books. Never have been. Metallics aren't even close to the same and won't help.monospaced
- "that will help you find an accurate CMYK color but you want be able to get close to a florescent" Metallics and pantone will be close.Hayoth
- I haven't got a bridge Book just the uncoated and coated books ATM but i will look into that thanks Mmattwrightgd
- Cmyk won't be even a little accurate. Not even close or approximate. Panties would be exact but Metallics would be totally worthless.monospaced
- Hahaha. Pantones not panties. Haha.monospaced
- new term for PMS colours.monNom
- _me_-1
you could look into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He… - bit of an old print tech now - but this is basically a 6 colour process developed by pantone back in the day.
- monNom0
You might get close in hue, but the value is going to be way off, as the thing that makes fluorescents look the way they do is the inks shift UV light into the visible spectrum, so they are actually brighter than all other local colours. Brighter than the paper they're printed on. You can't get that with inks that absorb some of the available light. The best you can hope for is a dull lime green like 100y/10c.
- BaskerviIle1
Nope not possible.
The brightest/most vivid colours you'll get with CMYK are the pure core colours themselves (ie pure C, or pure M).
Since green is made from combining C & Y, it will always be a bit muddy. The more colours you combine, the less punchy they'll be in general, unless you use a Pantone- yes, my experience years ago when a client kept asking for "more punch, more pop!!!" and we kept saying it would look more flat, which happened & cost $$$$vaxorcist