5 Colour process?
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- Blofeldt
Anyone heard of it, does it exist? I've googled it but not come up with much. I'm working on an identity for a printers who apparently use it, but i'd like to know what it is without having to ask them.
- MLP0
i know HP indigos (digi offset) run a color process that's CMYK + an orange color...
- rabattski0
5 colour process is technically the same as a 4 colour process but then, duh, with an extra run. you can do whatever you want with it. cmyk + foil, cmyk + lacquer, cmyk + pantone, 5 x pantone, 3 x pantone + 1 neon pantone. etc.
- rabattski0
that last one should be 2x neon.
- Blofeldt0
cheers rabbatski.
- rabattski0
no prob. but it's better to be safe and ask the printer what he's capable of.
- XC010
rabattski, has given the answer I would have given in reference to traditional press.
but now that there are loads of digital printers out there clammoring for attention and quality the term 5 colour has been used in refernce to digital printers that use CMYK and light Cyan to achieve better colour accuracey for proofs etc. thought I'd mention it for your reference
- rabattski0
whoah. now i learned something new. that's basically what mlp said in the beginning right? so if it's digital printing it's a whole different issue then when you talk about 5c printing? i feel had though.
- XC010
yeah, I expect the digital print market will get bigger for short runs as the technology gets cheaper and there will be loads of confusion in the market too.
using the same terminology is a bad idea really
- Blofeldt0
well, now armed with two sets of answers one for digital and one for traditional, I can talk to them without sounding as if i don't know what i'm on about.
Thanks guys
- rabattski0
knowledge is a good thing.
but dude, don't worry, you can't know everything in the printer business nor do i. you're not a printer nor is the printer a designer. what is it that one says? there are no such things as dumb questions?
- Blofeldt0
i'm doing a logo, and they want to show off they can do five colour, and i though "what the fuck are they on about?" I pretty sure they must be digital because i'm familer with running stuff through several times for finishes and extra spots, and i never heard that called 5 colour.
- stphn0
I think the HP Indigo is a 6 or 7 color process, 4 are reserved for cmyk and most printers reserve the empty slots for the two most common used colors. My printing company uses cmyk plus Wachovia blue and Union Bank green. To have them change out one of the alternate reserve colors is not cheap.
- Bunkum0
I thought it must man 4 colour plus a special too. They can't mean Hexagraphic printing (CMYK+Green and Orange)?
- stphn0
i think 5 color in this case probably means cmyk plus either a pms or a varnish.