Printing industry color (on)

Color is closely related to people and is more important to the printing industry. From publishing design to printing, color is an important issue.
The inks specified in the desktop design software are divided into two major categories, Spot Color Ink and Process Color Ink. The four-color ink used in the current world has a variety of systems, including: Japan Standard, SWOP Standard, and European Standard (Eurpoe Standard). This kind of ink is based on people in different regions have different preferences for color perception. Spot color inks have several sets of standards, such as Pantone, DIC, and Toyo Ink, which are subdivided into general spot colors, fluorescent colors, and metallic colors. The color designation is divided into four colors and spot colors, so the designer should depend on the final type of ink used to print, then use that set of ink color specified, otherwise it may not be as good as expected.
Due to different needs, there are different color matching system choices in most of the software. The most common ones are Pantone, Trumatch, Focoltone, DIC, and ToyoInk. They are applicable to different countries and regions, and they are also divided into spot color series. And four-color series.
Therefore, when designing a color match, please use the series of ink systems according to the printing process to select the color matching system. And to buy a color sample of the selected color matching system as a reference, because the color seen on the screen, there may be some differences, the following is a brief introduction of some common color matching system.
Trumatch

Digital prepress technology allows colors to be specified in increments of as little as 1% of the dot value, which expands the ability for designers and plotters to create pictures with more colors. Trumatch is a color matching system designed for the above reasons and organizes colors in small CMYK increments.
The Trumatch Swatching System is specifically designed to improve color specification accuracy. It provides over 2000 computer-generated colors that specify the exact ratio of cyan, magenta, yellow and black for the primary ink. Another innovation of the Trumatch Swatching System is its way of organizing colors, first of all chromaticity (starting with red along the color spectrum), followed by saturation (from deep, lively to light tones), again It is brightness (tax increase or decrease).
Focoltone

The Focoltone Color System is an improved method for selecting and matching primary colors. It classifies each color and other percentages of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black that are shared, and thus reduces the need for trapping. The color gamut of Focoltone includes 763 colors synthesized from four primary colors, and each color of the four primary color inks varies from 5% to 85%. If used in conjunction with their published NoTrap software in QuarkXPress, it will make it easier for designers to select a combination of colors to match the printing and reduce the work of trapping.
DIC and TOYOInk

The two color matching systems are designed with the inks of two well-known ink factories in Japan. Both of them are spot color matching systems and are more popular in Japan.