: Would print in CMYK with 30%C and 100%Y turns out green or yelow-ish color? I have created business card design in photoshop and used RGB for making a design, but i know that most of the
I have created business card design in photoshop and used RGB for making a design, but i know that most of the printers and stores for printing use CMYK for printing. In few cases when it was digital printing instead of plotter printers the stores told me they can print RGB without changing color.
But anyway when i finished my design i converted it to cmyk to check the difference and see if something needs change before printing. So everything was fine and in my print design there is a main logo with font which something like green-yellow-ish color and its color combination was a bit gradient and in photoshop it shows like this:
From the top of the font
C: 25%
M: 0%
Y: 100%
K: 0%
To the bottom of the font like this:
C: 32%
M: 0%
Y: 100%
K: 0%
I know that this gradient wouldn't be so visible on the business card. But in every variations i tried this should be the yelow-ish color.
When i got a business cards from the printing company they turned out as a green not yelow but whatever i tried the green color i got from printing, that should be like
C: 60%
M: 0%
Y: 100%
K: 0%
So why would be the color combination i used with 30% cyan turns out as a green on printing except the person from printing company messed up something?
Is it possible that yellow-ish color prints out as a green for some reason?
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The short answer is yes, your specified colours are shades of green, not yellow. A comparison to similar green Pantone shades from a swatch book (admittedly quickly chosen) gives the below. Pantone classes these as green.
The longer answer is that accurate colour reproduction involves numerous factors, which is an entirely different topic. Just a few things to consider...
If you are choosing the shade by eye you have to remember that even a
well profiled monitor will never give an accurate representation of
the final colour match - it's not physically possible because the RGB
gamut of your screen is different from the CMYK gamut of the finished
product.
The paper type will also change a shade considerably, in my
experience colours can look distinctly different on as little as a
20gsm lighter / heavier weight of the same stock. This isn't taking
into account if it's coated / uncoated / etc, etc
Simple lessons for the future - output to a PDF with a profile specified by your printer, and get a proof before doing a full print run.
Experience with print tells me that those colors will be green.
It's difficult to see a color like that on-screen and judge how it will appear with ink on paper. But generally yellow is the weakest color of the cyan, magenta, yellow and black inks that get put down.
So yes, Yellow + Cyan = Green.
Even a small amount of Cyan can have a big impact on how that color looks.
The way to avoid this is request a hard copy proof.
Printer to printer they use different profiles. Even there is lot of complications could arise how you export your final press file.
Since from the beginning, you started the whole process on wrong foot, there is nothing can blame on the print company person.
Always design on CMYK mode if you know it is going to be printed.
If you convert color for press, use InDesign to do the converting.
If possible ask from your printer their profile
Requesting a hard copy proof (color proof), since every single printers have different profiles.
Definition of yellowish is very subjective. I did little test on the color combination you gave, and found that both colors are "greenish" and "green".
I would say if the Cyan was less than 15%, it could have been "Yellowish".
For your further knowledge and research, read this answer for the this question.
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