Things you need to know about colour

The computer, scanner, digital camera and monitor create images using combinations of just three colours – Red, Green and Blue (called RGB) but when printing the CMYK process or Pantone process is used.  CMYK printing uses four different colours to print images – Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black (also known as Process Colours) so for full colour process litho printing, please ensure that all colours are CMYK and no Pantone references or RGB, therefore all Pantone and RGB images have to be converted to CMYK (we can do this for you).  Pantone or spot colour is not made using the process colours; instead the colour is printed using an ink made exclusively.  Each spot colour therefore requires its own separate printing plate.  Spot colour does not apply to digital printing as the printing devices can only reproduce from the four process colours.  If you only require spot colour Pantone printing use only the correct colour references for colour separations.