Q: Why is the black on my shirt not really black? If it’s more than 2 years old, it’s out of date, and just be careful with their specific color recommendations. Then you need to see how old that book is. Ask if they have a “color bridge” deck as well. Q: How do I tell if my print shop is the right one for perfecting colors (as much as possible)?Ī: The first question you should ask is, do you have a Pantone book? If they don’t, they probably don’t take color matching that seriously. Using RGB colors in the GTX machine color map makes most of them work as close as possible.ģ) We are advised as designers to change all of the artwork we are to print to RGB colors for vibrancy. It’s because of the following reasons:ġ) The GTX printers were built with a color profile that is specifically RGB.Ģ) Printing with an RGB palette makes it more likely ALL prints we do are as close to the colors intended since we are taking in PNGs, PDFs, JPegs, Vectors and other file formats, all calibrated in any (and sometimes multiple) color palettes. Q: If your DTG printer is CMYK, then why are your DTG sample colors from your manufacturer (Brother GTX) in RGB?Ī: Great question, one that confused us at first too. There are only 1600-16k colors that can be printed. Why?Ī: Because colors on any electronic screen are going to be RGB, illuminated by light, and there are 16 million RGB colors. Q: The colors look different than what I saw on the computer screen! AND they look different on my phone from your computer. So his RGB color literally doesn’t translate into a Pantone code, which will make it very difficult to match it across different printers and things. For example, our friend was having this problem so we popped his RGB values into the Pantone Converter site (found here: ) and this is what we found. Each print shop you are going to is having their designers or their different printers make a very subjective decision as to which of their 16k or 1600 colors they can print from they are going to replace your colors with. What the heck?Ī: Your logo is colored with a digital coloring system that has 16 million colors in it. Every time I get it printed the colors look wildly different. Q: I have my RGB/Hex values for my brand color for my business. So to sum up most of the color questions we get: Need special mixes to produce pastel and metallic colors so MAKE SURE your screen printer has these mixes on hand for these types of orders.Created specifically to bring consistency to physical colors.Suffix of M (Matte) C (Coated) U (Uncoated).NOT recommended for printing or branding purposes.Six digit, three-byte hexadecimal number.The three cones of color most humans have in their eyes to differentiate color are also broken into Red, Green and Blue, which is why the gamuts are pretty similar.Colors on different monitors or screens will NOT be consistent from screen to screen, or from application to application.Can produce vibrant neon colors, 100% black, and most artificially represented colors.Smartphones, computer screens, TVs, illuminated signage.Used for DIGITAL and electronic coloring.When the phone or TV screen is off, they are black.To obtain a lighter color, color must be added.Of the 16 million colors represented in electronic color, at max only 1,800 – 16,000 can be printed (depending on the print type).A “True” Black is nearly impossible to produce with ink, and specifically this process.Printers are not calibrated for color authenticity across the board. CMYK will be printed differently depending on which printer is printing it. CMYK is NOT a consistent color setting.CMYK is a “four-color process” where Pantone mixing is a solid color throughout.CMYK often uses “Half-toning” to achieve colors, which means little dots of magenta printed over a white background is how a lighter pink is achieved.To achieve black, you add all the colors together at max.Red can be subtracted from white to create cyan.To obtain a lighter color, ink must be removed.“Visible” means visible to human people with at least three cones of color.ĬMYK: (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key (Black)) It shows the variety of colors available to each type of color setting. □ So let us pepper you with some info then sum it up at the end. Mostly for clients who are trying to suggest we just make some of this stuff up when y’all give us PNGs programmed with Hex codes and they can’t be printed properly. There are so many answers to that question that we are just going to carpet bomb you with information right now. “Why does my business logo print different colors on different items/at different shops?”
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