Colour

Over the past 25 years a whole alphabet soup of colour working ‘standards’ has been brewed up for the printing industry in the wake of the device-independent digital pre-press revolution.

Superior has become the first printer to obtain an ISO 12647-2 colour certification on a Heidelberg LE-UV press.

Brand owners have traditionally been very protective about their brand colours, and that’s understandable – consistent branding and high print quality reassure consumers that the product too will be...

Publisher Orphans Publishing, which also has a print arm (Orphans Press), was able to both commission and print a celebration of all things Beatles as the 50th anniversary of the seminal Sgt. Pepper’s...

West London-based Boss Print has launched a new litho colour process that offers photographic, continuous tone-like image quality based on an expanded colour gamut with high definition screening.

Ricoh has become the first digital press manufacturer to be issued with a UKAS accredited ISO 12647 certification.

Paper merchant GF Smith has launched a project to find the world’s favourite colour and is inviting everyone on the planet to select their favourite shade online.

Overmatter understands that considerable angst can be involved when picking a colour scheme for the Christmas tree – just look at the flak Everton manager Ronald Koeman received after posting a...

Colour is a very subjective concept in that we each perceive light and colour in subtly different ways. But colour management is all about eradicating differences in the way that colours are printed.

Pantone has launched 112 new colours after doing an audit of missing shades from its portfolio.