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WTF Are PMS Colors?
Welcome to our next installment of “WTF Is That?” We will be tackling the elusive, Sasquatch of color: the Pantone Matching System. Also referred to PMS Colors. So, what IS Pantone? Well, it’s actually just a standardized color system. Your regular office printer, or in our case–our large offset printers, use the standard CMYK printing (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key = Black) system. Pantone is just another way to specify colors. The difference of Pantone being that the color range is broader, and more exact than offset printing. Using Pantone you can even achieve metallics and fluorescent colors. Back in […]
WTF Are Bleeds?
Welcome to our first installment of “WTF Is That?”- a chance for us to share a bit about what you need to know when submitting artwork, forms you need to fill out, and more when getting prepared to start your CD or DVD project! We’ll be offering insight into a few of the more *complicated* parts of CD, DVD, and vinyl manufacturing. We get a lot of similar questions from customers, so why not address each one of them individually to help you out? One of the biggest issues we come across when it comes to art files for print […]