Yellow print comes back lime green

[sawn-off]

Hi,

can anyone help?

I've had 4 sets of proofs back for a yellow business card design, but they keep coming back with a lime green tinge - in daylight they're bright yellow, but indoors under electric lights they're bright lime green!

I've tried different versions, but the yellow I used for last proofs is 100% Y, 5% K. They're being digitally printed on 400gsm art board at a professional printers......( I've tried 2 different printers, same result.)

any clues??

Thanks

[Pulse Print]

Hey,

I'd bet that this is due to the digital printing process that you're using - we often find that digital prints aren't ideal. What quantities are you ordering? It may be better to switch to litho if you can.

Feel free to drop us an email to info@pulseprint.co.uk if you'd like to discuss further.

Rich@Pulse

[Katedesign]

I've just digitally printed out a slab of 100% Y + 5% K and it looks fine to me. Even in the kitchen which only has electric light it looks yellow. PM me your address and I'll send you a sample! (Though we can only print digitally onto 350gsm board)

[AppletreePrint]

I have seen some digital printers setup for pantone or similar and use a pantone to CMYK converter - this will definitely cause your colour palette to change when printed.

Litho printing is far superior to digital; I would always go litho over digital not just for the quality but not having to worry if you have to much block colour and whether the vibrancy of the ink will be ok. You do not have to worry about these things if you go with a high quality lithographic printer, also you can get low quantities lithographically printed now at very competitive prices.

100 luxury business cards lithographically printed.

[LovesPrint]

I have seen some digital printers setup for pantone or similar and use a pantone to CMYK converter - this will definitely cause your colour palette to change when printed.

Litho printing is far superior to digital; I would always go litho over digital not just for the quality but not having to worry if you have to much block colour and whether the vibrancy of the ink will be ok. You do not have to worry about these things if you go with a high quality lithographic printer, also you can get low quantities lithographically printed now at very competitive prices.

100 luxury business cards lithographically printed.

It's not quite as black and white as you are making out, for certain jobs, digital prints perfectly well, sometimes even better it depends on the job you are doing. We have an excellent Nexpress which can do all sorts of fancy tricks (spot UV, gloss coat), and has a range of Pantone colours it can match pretty well dead on. (Obviously there are still some it can't).

And if you want to personalise an item you can't do it at low cost on press!

[Katedesign]

^^I agree with Artgem - we have both digital and litho and certain jobs are fine on digital.

If it has to go out of the door the same day . . .
and personalised. . .
or very short run. . .
it has to be digital!

[SparkCreative]

^^I agree with Artgem - we have both digital and litho and certain jobs are fine on digital.

If it has to go out of the door the same day . . .
and personalised. . .
or very short run. . .
it has to be digital!

But if you want exact colour matching, it has to be litho using Pantone specials.

[LovesPrint]

But if you want exact colour matching, it has to be litho using Pantone specials.

Hence the "it depends on the job you are doing"

[Katedesign]

Absolutely - we do a lot of litho in Pantones and hardly any corporate work in CMYK for stationery. But some colours are fine printed digitally.

[SparkCreative]

Hence the "it depends on the job you are doing"

lol glad we're in agreement.