What is the difference between spot color and process color

[kris]

Please share the difference between spot color and process color

[scroozlewis]

Process colors consist of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black, hence the term CMYK. These four inks can be mixed together to create a full spectrum of colors in a document, which is why this process is also referred to as full-color printing.
Spot color uses customized inks that create very specific results when they are applied to paper. Pantone is the most common spot color system currently in use in North America and Europe, but other systems such as FOCOLTONE and TOYO exist as well.
When a specific Pantone color is used in a document, the print shop mixes it from a predetermined formula before applying it on the press.
When Spot color use, It allows a designer to strategically utilize color without the expense of running a job on a four-color press. Black and a chosen spot color can be used to add an element of eye-catching color without breaking the budget.

[johngate2100]

There is huge difference of course. Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black These are related to process color and Pantone is the Spot color. I don't have much knowledge about this but this is like that i think.

[js_best4u]

Spot colors such as Pantone (PMS) colors are specially mixed ink colors. Process color is 4-color (CMYK) that uses varying percentages of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and (K)black inks to reproduce colors.

Coated or Uncoated is describing the type of paper you are printing on. Glossy paper is coated and Matte or non-glossy paper is uncoated. You use PMS Pantone Matching System when you need precise color matching because what you see on your screen is not what it looks like when you print the design.

With a PMS book, you can see what the color will look like if you print it on coated or uncoated or if it is converted to RGB or Process CMYK. This book is a must have for any good print designer.

If you have never worried about this before then you have just been lucky and had a good pre-press designer. Since printing with PMS colors cost more than process printing, if you did not pay for PMS then your printer’s pre-press designer converted your design to process for you and had a good eye.

In Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, they give you PMS swatches and you pick coated or uncoated depending on your output. In the past, before digital printing became the norm, you could save money by printing with black and one spot color. This is because the printer would only be printing two colors, making two plates instead of four. But now that digital printing is so low cost, their is not much if any price difference between printing two colors on a press and digital four color process. Depending on quantity, you can still get a price breat by printing on a press. Ask your printer. Your relationship with your printer and the pre-press designers is the most important for producing top quality print design. They can best tell you how to set your design up to save the most money.

[JhonMoney]

Originally Posted by js_best4u

Spot colors such as Pantone (PMS) colors are specially mixed ink colors. Process color is 4-color (CMYK) that uses varying percentages of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and (K)black inks to reproduce colors.

Coated or Uncoated is describing the type of paper you are printing on. Glossy paper is coated and Matte or non-glossy paper is uncoated. You use PMS Pantone Matching System when you need precise color matching because what you see on your screen is not what it looks like when you print the design.

With a PMS book, you can see what the color will look like if you print it on coated or uncoated or if it is converted to RGB or Process CMYK. This book is a must have for any good print designer.

If you have never worried about this before then you have just been lucky and had a good pre-press designer. Since printing with PMS colors cost more than process printing, if you did not pay for PMS then your printer’s pre-press designer converted your design to process for you and had a good eye.

In Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, they give you PMS swatches and you pick coated or uncoated depending on your output. In the past, before digital printing became the norm, you could save money by printing with black and one spot color. This is because the printer would only be printing two colors, making two plates instead of four. But now that digital printing is so low cost, their is not much if any price difference between printing two colors on a press and digital four color process. Depending on quantity, you can still get a price breat by printing on a press. Ask your printer. Your relationship with your printer and the pre-press designers is the most important for producing top quality print design. They can best tell you how to set your design up to save the most money.

this is a good material which you provided.
Thanks
JhonMoney

[kerry123]

well, I don't know about that colors, process colors are CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) however spot colors contain other colors. However nice.

[williamsmith87820]

Spot color printing would be typically used for jobs which require no full color imagery, such as for business cards and other stationery, or in monotone (or duotone etc) literature such as black and white newspaper print.

The color process printing involves the use of four plates: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Keyline (Black). The CMYK artwork (which you will have supplied) is separated into these four colors – one plate per color.