Spot Colours & Effects

Spot colours refer to any ink that is outside the standard CMYK spectrum. That means that artwork has a specific Pantone, or effect colour assigned to a specific colour or effect. Think of it as though these are colours that you would not be able to print out of your home printer either reliably, or at all. That's when you require a spot colour.

Spot UV cured Gloss or Matt effects are the most straight forward to understand as they are both clear in colour, but change the sheen of a specific area in the artwork.  So artwork has it's CMYK printed card stock and then a separate process prints the UV Gloss or Matt effect. As well as such effects being applied to our printed parts, we can also print these effects onto a disk itself, evident in our Vinyl Imitation Package.

Other spot colours are utilised when a specific colour is required. Colours are usually referenced in the Pantone matching system, where again, our disc on-body printing regularly replicates the colour references onto Screen Printed discs, but can be implemented on the packaging sleeves through Lithographic or Screen Printing.

We only advise specific matching for larger runs as smaller runs can prove expensive per unit, but if you were aiming to replicate Neon or Metallic inks then spot colours are the road to take. We can convert spot colours into CMYK, or colour match to an existing product, but please talk to us about this process as there are limits and caveats, depending on what you are trying to achieve.

If you are unfamiliar with how these spot colours work, or are looking for pricing on a spot colour run, then please reach out to us. The exact type of ink and the area of coverage can play a big part in how we approach the process, so if you have artwork, even if it is preliminary, it would be worth having that to hand at the point of application.