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Hi all, I have just received a brief to create proposals and artwork for some sort of cream containers created using PP/PE. I have been recommended that the best way of printing on this is Silk-Screen Printing. I was just wandering how colours are normally applied in the actual .ai artwork so...

Hello, I am creating some shapes using a solid Pantone colour in Illustrator. On top of these shapes, I am adding another object with the same size and the sane Pantone colour, using the "Multiply" setting. This is all very nice and good (I get a darker output in the multiplied area) - but I...

Hi all, I am investigating the best way to print packaging with a metallic effect on them, and for what I have seen in these forums and elsewhere, it seems that Mirafoil is a very good solution to keep costs under contro. The question is: how is artwork for Mirafoil prepared? I am assuming...

Hello, on Monday I will spend the whole morning overseeing a local printer dealing with a test job I am running. This test job includes dozens of small "mini-tests" with seven Pantone colours that I have chosen for our future guidelines. I can wait for the experience: the guys I have talked to...

Hi all, as you know - you can change the names of spot colours in Illustrator from lets say, PMS 425 C to "My lovely 425 C is perfectly formed". Now - when it comes to the praxis of sending artwork to a printer's house, it is my assumption that the printer should never use the actual name...

Hi all, I was wondering what would happen if let's say a shape in a Pantone colour (i.e. Process Blue C) had an identical shape on top, in another Pantone Colour (i.e. Pantone Black C), with a "Multiply" in its transparency settings. Once this goes to print - would the final output be some...

Hi all, If let's say that I've got some sort of Pantone background, with a lightfastness of around 3-4, and an equivalent CMYK background, which one of the two would suffer the "ravages of time" faster? CMYK or Pantone? I am thinking here about packaging that would be essentially indoors...

Umm - I do apologise if I seem to be taking most of the top area of this very forum / just noticed that I have two more threads on top! :D Just a quick question: other than the "special" Pantone colours, like Metallic or neons: is it correct to assume that the "normal" Pantone Solid Coated...

Hello, I have just read the following in an online article: "Very rarely are jobs printed with more than 5 pantone colours, and more often than not with only 1-3. Presses can only hold so many inks at once, and the expense for using higher quantities of pantone colours is enormous". Now - I am...

Hi all, I am trying to learn as much as I can about printing in general, and especially offset printing. I deal with the art processes in my company, but I have never learn much about what happens "at the other side" (i.e. how CMYK or Pantone colours are actually applied to our componentry)...

Hi all. I am sure that this is probably one of the most stupid questions in these very forums, so apologies in advance! :D I am trying to create a project in 4 pantone colours. One of them is a blue background, in which I want to add some transparent white lines on top to create some sort of...

Hello, I have just found out that there is not a decent dark grey in the Pantone Solid coated range that does not contain masses of white or colours that I do not licke much (like reflex blue etc) because these affect lightfastness, and I am trying to achieve a safe output. I am wondering...

Hello, a while ago I used Pantone 877 C for a small metallic effect in a box. I have noticed that some pharmaceutical companies seem to use a very shiny effect in their boxes (i.e. Nurofen). It is my understanding that they use 877 C for the whole background / then add a few extra elements on...

Hi all. First of all - my apologies if I am posting in the wrong forum (admins - please feel free to move this if I am in the wrong place!). I am wondering whether anyone knows of a list of light fastness-es for all the Pantone Solid Coated range? I have found a few resources pointing towards...