4 Color Black/Grey--Offset Printing

[adamh88]

Hi everyone,

I've always wondered why printers are so adament about black/grey text being only comprised of K. I mean I completely understand the reasoning behind it (registration) but do the same perils not apply to colored text? For example, green text. 

[D Fosse · Accepted solution]

Seems very obvious to me. Why introduce unnecessary problems and make the text more difficult to read? It's one thing with a large headline, quite another with small volume text.

[adamh88]

Thanks for the reply, yeah it did for me too but I just wanted to make sure I wasn't overlooking something. I've never had a printer have any concerns about colored text.

[Gusgsm]

How many coloured texts, specially body copy text, do you find in magazines and newspapers? Not many.Why? Because they are already difficult to read. Difficult as in "more difficult than clean pristine black ink only".

If anybody prints long blocks of tiny coloured texts well... legibility is not the aim. And this does beyond "registration" issues.

[NB, colourmanagement]

Hi

I think it's sensible to use a single printing plate for text where possible, and, yes, coloured text can suffer mis-registration. As can text out of black.

Best to let the printers do what they know works from experience in most cases. 

I hope this helps

if so, please "like" my reply

thanks

neil barstow, colourmanagement.net

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