The Characteristics and Application of Non-spot Color Printing Technology

Bright and smooth spot colors not only promote product sales, but also enhance brand image. However, this is a price to pay. Spot color printing is more complex and costly, and as a result product prices are higher and profitability is slimmer. Spotless's non-spot color printing technology subverts the stereotyped concept of spot colors by designers, print buyers, and printers. For the first time, spotless color inks have become reliable and practical.

Spotless color printing can use spot colors to express spot colors, so it wipes out the problems inherent in traditional spot color inks. No spot color printing technology developed by Creo. The technology successfully brings Staccato, the market's leading FM screening technology that can be used for real production, to the market. Practice has proved that its FM screening has many advantages, such as: smoother tones, no rose spots, no moire, or other visual "interference" common in other screenings. During the printing process, due to inaccurate overprinting or density transfer, the gray balance and hue change can be very large, and this screening technology can avoid this problem. This also means that the primary color has a spot color characteristic: it is very stable, and even looks like pre-mixed colors. While Fangjia FM frequency screening has been tested in practice, it has become the standard method of FM screening. It has been used by more than 1,000 printers in the offset printing industry, including hundreds of single sheet packaging outside the United States and the United States. Business.

Spotless 4 exploits the potential of four-color printing presses.

Now, this technology has pushed forward further. It not only helps printers replace primary colors with primary colors, but also makes processing more reliable and accurate. In non-spot color printing technology, spot colors replace "formulas" based on actual printing conditions (printers, paper, inks, etc.) to maximize their accuracy. Similarly, proofing is easier and more accurate. In non-spot color printing technology, it is even possible to carry out proofing on the remote table, making the collaboration between designers, customers, platemaking centers, and printing plants more efficient.

There are two types of non-spot color printing products. The first one is Spotless 4. No spot color 4 can express a large number of spot colors on a four-color machine. Many printers have begun to use four primary colors instead of spot colors, but if there is no spot color 4 technology, the color tone will be smoother, the colors will be more leaps, and “visual disturbances”, rose spots, and moiré patterns will also be avoided. With network defects, its stability has also been greatly improved. The performance of subtle text is also very good, and the printing quality of anti-white text is also very high. The color or black and white linework is also not jagged. The predictability of color is very high. Customers can see the difference at a glance.

In addition, profits and the output of the printing sector will also increase. Since the user does not have to stop the printer to replace the ink and the cleaning roller, printing can be continued at a peak state. With the increase in the use of CMYK inks, there is no need to wait in line for a spot color printer, and jobs can be assigned to other printers at will. This not only increases the use of printing presses, but also makes working arrangements more flexible and efficient.

Spotless X Improves Color Gamut

Another product is Spotless X. No spot color X You can use the traditional primary colors, such as red, orange, green, or blue, to expand the available color gamut. Spotless X technology is commonly used in traditional spot color areas: vector images; it can also be used in raster images to enhance realism or to provide “hop more” colors in order to increase visual impact and product appeal on the Shelf. force. The uniqueness of the Spotless X technology is that its ink set is very flexible and can be expanded to any color.

Spotless X's flexibility

1. Add extended colors, such as orange, green, red, and blue, to the added printing units and process them with X technology without spot color. Color recipes can be created using the full CMYK +XYZ color settings to ensure that all line art and vector pattern colors are printable.

2. Use CMYK plus one (or more) spot colors to match the main customer's regular jobs. Some printing companies have individual large customers who require spot colors to print their brand colors. In this case, CMYK plus a spot color is the best solution. With spotless X technology, spot color inks can be used as an extended color for primary colors, while still being spot colors when printed.

S/H: No spot color technology and other spot color alternatives

Spotless technology can also be used with any other six-color alternative technology, such as FMsix, PANTONE Hexachrome, and more. In fact, no spot color technology can integrate the above technology database into a complete workflow, making color management, trapping, and proofing more efficient, making these solutions more convenient, practical, and reliable.

No spot color: Designers, print buyers, printers benefit

The non-spot color printing subverts the industry's traditional mode of dealing with spot colors, and its advantages are also felt by everyone involved. No spot color technology frees the designer from the limitation that a print can only use several spot colors. This technology also frees designers, customers, and printers from the trouble of spot color proofing. It also makes printers more efficient and bring more value to customers.