CMYK is simply an acronym used to describe the four-color printing process involving Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and black, which is the Keyline color.
According to at least one university study, there is roughly a 65% increase in retention when a material is printed in full color as opposed to black and white. So it is no wonder you have been researching full color methods of product decoration for your labels. During this research, you may have come across the term CMYK Printing and thought to yourself, what? We are sorry for the acronym, but sometimes we forget that not everyone is familiar with the world of digital printing. To designers and printers this is common knowledge, but to most everyone else, CMYK might as well be a foreign language.
What Does CMYK Stand For?
CMYK is simply an acronym used to describe the four-color printing process involving Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and black, which is the Keyline color. Every other color in the visible spectrum is created using these four colors: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. The four colors are printed in layers of dots that combine to create the illusion of many more colors. The result: photo quality images.
CMYK is not the only full color printing process but it is the most common.
Today, CMYK printing is the most widely used and cost effective color system in the commercial printing industry. Display devices, meanwhile, typically use an RGB color model. This stands for Red-Green-Blue.
Utilize the CMYK Printing Process with Digital Heat Transfers
“Being digital, an almost endless array of process colors can be built using the cmyk+w spectrum,” said Matt Regan, CDigital senior vice president. If you couldn’t guess, the “W” stands for white.
Digital heat transfers are printed at 1200 dpi and are capable of hitting over 10,000,000 colors with fluid gradients. These digital images are printed on the underside of a polyester film and coated with the proper adhesive for their destined substrate – metal, plastic, ceramics, etc. The film is then slit into various widths, wound on cardboard cores, and shipped to the customer.
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Since 2001, CDigital has been an innovator in developing new systems and processes for using digital print technology to produce full color digital heat transfers for the product decoration industry. Our print technology is by far the most cost effective full color print solution in the product decoration industry today.
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