Colour Matching

Throughout your design the colours used must be CMYK colours. There are a large number of variables which can affect the colour produced during Full Colour Printing. Simply looking at the appearance of colours on a monitor, especially if no Monitor Calibration has been carried out is unlikely to accurately represent printed colour results.

In just the same way an un-calibrated desktop printer, such as a laser or inkjet may well produce very different colours to those produced on a professional printing press.

Rather than leaving colour matching to chance and ‘keeping your fingers crossed’ we strongly recommend that colours are chosen from our Hard Copy Colour Swatch Sheets. We have produced two Sheets (one printed on coated material and the other on uncoated) which each show over 1000 colours together with their CMYK values. The advantage of using these sheets is that they are exactly matched to our presses. When a colour is chosen from the swatch sheets and the CMYK values selected in your design you can be confident that the finished result will closely match your expectations.

Swatch sheets are available for £20.00 + VAT & Carriage for a set printed on Coated and Uncoated stocks. They are an invaluable and accurate way of ensuring predictable colour.

Please note: Where you have a particular colour issue, for example a requirement to match to a specific company colour or a previously printed job, this MUST be brought to our attention at the order stage. Simply specify the colour to be matched to or that the job has been previously printed in the ‘Special Instructions’ section during the online ordering process.

If you have a swatch of the colour required please send us a hard copy. We cannot be held responsible if your printed work does not match your requirements unless those requirements are brought to our attention before we print.

NB. Matching to our swatch sheets with require a compulsory PrePrint Check at the applicable product rate.