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Printing Industry Trends for Marketers and Designers

Posted by Roger P. Gimbel, EDP on Dec 18, 2019 11:34:42 AM

Printing projects start with project design but marketers and designers aren’t always up to speed on printing industry developments. Lack of information can cause designers to miss out on exploiting new technologies or create unnecessary expense. Here are some trends and printing operation developments that can affect how creative people design print projects.

Color Choices and Specialty Inks

Printing presses can create only a portion of all possible colors by mixing their four basic inks; cyan, magenta, yellow, and black (CMYK). When colors must be exact, such as in a corporate logo, printers purchase specialty inks or “spot colors” that ink companies pre-mix to exact specifications. Ink companies create the colors according to the Pantone Color Matching System (PMS).

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Topics: variable data printing, news, personalization, designer, marketer, color inks, process color, environmental sustainability, segmentation

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