What is Spot Colour printing?
Spot colour printing is a method of printing that utilises 1 printing plate per colour. If your job contains only one colour then only one plate is required. If it contains six colours then six plates are needed. Each plate is printed in turn with a different colour ink, the press being totally washed down and new ink applied for each plate.
Spot colour is normally used for simpler jobs or when a special ink colour or a metallic is needed. For example, letterheads and simple business stationery are traditionally printed spot colour

The Pantone Matching System
Pantone is the standard for matching spot colours in print. The pantone system is based upon a swatch book containing around 700 printed ink samples. Theoretically all pantone books are printed the same so if you specify a colour by looking in your pantone book we can then match that colour on press with our pantone book. The pantone system also specifies how inks can be mixed.
Pantone books cost around £50

Caralan Standard range of Pantone colours
We stock the following range of colours from the pantone system:-

Pantone Black	P072 Blue	Pantone Green
	P2748 blue	P331 green
P221 red	P280 blue
Warm Red	P539 blue	P181 brown
P032 red	Reflex Blue	P469 brown
P485 red	Process Blue/Cyan
Rubine Red	P2905 blue	P021 orange
Rhodamine Red
	P347 green	Pantone Yellow
Pantone Purple	P354 green	P109 yellow
Pantone Violet	P357 green
		Cool Grey 7

Pantone colours not on this standard list will incur a mixing charge.