Fourced loss of saturation in CMYK

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Ruth_Canton
Mar 1, 2004
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I am trying to obtain a remotely saturated Navy Blue in CMYK. I select 100 saturation, have chosen different custom colors. But every time the program sends my saturation back down to sub-80% when I click "OK".
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LenHewitt
Mar 1, 2004
Ruth,

It sounds as though you are trying to produce a colour that is outside the CMYK colour gamut. That is a colour that just cannot be reproduced with C, M, Y and black inks.

Custom colours are representative of a specific custom ink, and are used when a colour is required that cannot be repro’d by the process inks. That requires an extra plate on the press and puts up the print costs, and custom colour references are only preserved when used in spot-colour channels and the file saved as a DCS-2 EPS file.

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