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ColourFilePrint ensure colour quality by:
FilePrint's print solution delivers short run print on demand and is fully automated. There are huge benefits to this type of solution: quick, short run, low cost. However, some traditional print services are not appropriate for this type of service.
Is your colour correct? Compared to what?Our digital printers are industrial strength, ran by professional printers and monitored for correct output using spectrophotometer. It might well be the case that the colour does not match your expectation, for one of the following reasons: Your Monitor: Monitors output colour in RGB, our print uses CMYK, these our two quite different colour palettes. Some colours will translate well, others will not. In addition, professional graphic designers calibrate their monitors to improve the colour representation, but still depend on pantone colour swatches and printed proofs to ensure the colour is correct. Colour Swatch: A colour swatch is generally a pantone colour, you may also have printed materials lithographically printed using pantones. A pantone is an ink made specifically to match a colour, just like Dulux paint. Pantone offers a wide range of colours including neons and metallics. Digital presses used processed colours, that is all colours are made up of a combination of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. Most colours will match very well, some not so well, and others like neon and metallic cannot be matched at all, i.e Silver is Grey. Local Desktop Printer: Our presses are much more likely to be correct than a desktop printer. Other IssuesHere are a couple of the most common reasons for poor colour match. Dark Colours: Colour can be represented as RGB (Red Green Blue) or CMYK (Cyan Magenta Yellow Black). All our print is output in CMYK and therefore all work should be done in CMYK. If your work is in RGB, the print engine needs to interpret the colour and this can cause a shift in colour, particularly in dark colours. Light Colours: All digital print devices will have a variance in the colour that is put down - let's say its around 5%. Printing a very rich colour with high values, this variance will make little difference, but printing colours which have only a little colour in will vary dramatically. A rich blue might have a value of 93.63.38.5, moving these values by 5% will have little effect on the colour, but cream is 0.0.10.0, moving the yellow form 10 to 15 makes it pale yellow, whilst moving it down to 5 makes it almost white. It is therefore good practice to avoid colours like cream in large areas of your work. Incorrect ColourFilePrint will make our best endeavour to delivery the correct colour; if the output is, in our opinion, accurate with the colour in the PDF document and within our quality parameters, then it is correct. Issues that are not acceptable and should be reported to us for reprinting are:
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