Meri,

If you want to go to the expence of a 5th color, you should be able
ot get close  with a pantone ink. But I doubt your client will
appreciate the extra expense.

Other than that you are stuck using some combination of Cyan,
Magenta, and black for your color. Truematch and Pantone both make
printed swatch books of CMYK colors that will allow you to estimate
the best combination for your need.

the blues allways print more purple to the eye than what you see on
screen in my experience.

Britt


>Hello all,
>I am designing a logo using a royal blue that looks great onscreen but is
>out of the CMYK gamut. I am wondering if there is any way to reproduce the
>colour faithfully when the logo is printed on a book using CMYK? I did
>explain to the client that the blue could look different when printed, but
>nonetheless I am wondering if there is a way to achieve it.
>
>This is probably an awfully ignorant question - I don't know as much about
>commercial printing as I should. But if I can do a faithful colour printout
>on my home printer (from the RGB gamut), why can't a commercial printer
>achieve the same thing somehow? I know the CMYK process is different... but
>perhaps there is some way of incorporating a spot colour to achieve the
>right blue? Or perhaps a commercial printer will be able to reproduce the
>colour better using CMYK than my home printer can in CMYK mode?
>
>Any help would be much appreciated!
>Meri


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