Wednesday, April 24, 2013

The most ridiculous color...EVER.

From a printing standpoint the color I am about hate forever is illustrated below. 


 Why will I hate it forever?  Well if you look closely at the color, it should be so similar you really couldn't tell the difference, but when you see the differences in the CMYK values (highlighted in yellow), you should instantly understand why I am about to hate it forever.   I didn't see that one side of a piece we were printing was created in color #1 and the other side was created in color #2.  On our proofing printer, the differences didn't show up, on our monitors the differences didn't show up.  So we never looked closely at the color breakdowns until it was on the press.  The Hex color is even just 1 letter different!  But the CMYK values are completely different.  One has no yellow in it what-so-ever and the other has a ton of yellow in it.  Who knew that two completely different colors in print would be so similar on screen and everywhere else!


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