Which Color Gamut Size for Your Print Job Would You Want? (see both images below)
Managed Color Spectral Separations Turn Printing Presses into Large Gamut Printers!
Managed Color Spectral Separations:
*Analyze & match the (Adobe RGB) colors in your file
*Formulate an ink set that can make most file colors in print
*Reduces ink mixing of difficult colors to make printing easier
*Uses gray ink to eliminate making gray with CMYK inks
* Can use Pantone inks for packaging spots and images in the same file so fewer inks can be used versus CMYK plus spot ink sets
Traditional CMYK separations:
Try to stuff your file’s colors into a tiny four color gamut
If there is a lot of ink mixing on press, then many unwanted color shifts can happen and any color adjustment on press will be difficult or impossible because each ink effects multiple colors