I am a print director working at a print company in japan. We sometimes use bright color ink(s) to supplement the color that turns out to be dull with the regular CMYK inks. This is not to use the ink(s) as a solid but as a supplementary color. For example, when an animation character wears a very bright and colorful costume, we add some neon pink or green inks to supplement those costumes because the regular cyan, yellow, and magenta cannot produce the intensity and clarity of the colors that you see on the monitor. Obviously, we subtract the regular cyan, yellow, and magenta by 20-30% depending on how dense we want those colors to be reproduced. In this case, the numbers of inks to be used are regular CMYK inks +neon green(spot color)+neon pink(spot color). The total is 6 colors.
This supplementing technique is quite common in Japan but I don’t see any information on the web outside of Japan. The use of spot color as solids is the only information that I can find.
If anyone knows about this technique, please let me know.
You can see what I am talking about from this link (example)
Thank you in advance.
This supplementing technique is quite common in Japan but I don’t see any information on the web outside of Japan. The use of spot color as solids is the only information that I can find.
If anyone knows about this technique, please let me know.
You can see what I am talking about from this link (example)
Thank you in advance.