Spot Colour or Full Colour

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  • Baskerville0

    It depends how many colours you have in your design. I assume there is only one or two colours.

    If you printed just 100% cyan then that would essentially be a spot colour but using a 4-colour process.

    It's only when the 4 colour plates overlay colours that you loose brightness since it is a reductive colour process – ie the more colours you mix the closer you get to black. So as a general rule if you want bright colours, use a CMYK colour that only uses one or two plates or use spot colours.

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