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For Printing Presses: The color mode is either Black & White (Grayscale), Spot (PMS) color(s) or for full color printing the CMYK.
For Digital Printing (laser and inkjet): The color mode is Black & White (Grayscale) or the CMYK.
For the Internet or Screen Viewing: The color mode is RGB.

Most design software packages will provide for this. However, a scanned picture or image taken with your digital camera will normally be saved in RGB mode unless otherwise specified. In addition, computers display images on screen as RGB.

RGB - RGB stands for Red, Green and Blue. These are the primary colors of light that when combined create other colors and white. This is the color model used for television and/or computers display images.

The RGB color model, is an additive model, whereas white is the “additive” combination of all primary colored lights, while black is the absence of light. If we combine red, green and blue light you will get white light.

Black background absent of color
with color added to make white

Conversion Chart (Pantone to RGB and HEX)

CMYK - CMYK, often used to describe the printing process itself, is just the opposite of RGB.

CMYK is a “subtractive” color model that works by partially or entirely masking certain colors on the typically white background, because inks “subtract” brightness from white.

White is the natural color of the paper or other background, while black results from a full combination of colored inks.

CMYK = C – Cyan (Blue), M – Magenta (Red), Y - Yellow, K – Key (Black)

The “K” in CMYK stands for key since in four-color printing cyan, magenta, and yellow printing plates are carefully keyed or aligned with the key of the black key plate.

When we print cyan, magenta and yellow inks on white paper, they absorb the light shining on the page. Since our eyes receive no reflected light from the paper, we perceive black.

This is "4-color process" or "full-color" printing. By combining different percentages of the 4 CMYK inks, which under magnification are seen as round dots of various dimension and spacing, the illusion of a continuous tone image is created.

It is possible to see colors in RGB that you can't make with CMYK?

Unfortunately not all colors in the RGB spectrum can be replicated in CMYK. Such colors are said to be "out of the CMYK color gamut". When converting from RGB mode to CMYK mode, software programs get as close to original colors as possible. Some colors convert very well whereas others do not. For this reason it is best if you do the RGB-to-CMYK Conversion, where you control the conversion, from RGB to CMYK before sending them to us.

Scanners and digital cameras generally create images using combinations of the three RGB colors. When you save a scanned picture, or image taken with your digital camera, it normally will be saved in RGB mode unless otherwise specified.

When we receive RGB images, we do a standard-value conversion to CMYK, which may not be perfectly to your liking. We want you to be happy, so please, take the time to prepare your file properly. We cannot be responsible for sub-par results if you furnish your images in RGB. Even though monitors always use RGB to display colors, the colors you see on your monitor will more closely match the final printed piece if you are viewing them in the CMYK color space.

Converting to CMYK Color Space

Adobe InDesign

Use the following menu options: Window/Swatches and Window/Color. Double click color in Swatches Change color mode to CMYK and color type to Process. Any colors created in the document that are not in the Swatches palette, need to be changed to the CMYK color space. Select each object you want to convert and make sure the Color palette reflects the CMYK percentages. Click top right arrow in the palette to change to CMYK if necessary. Remember to send us your layout and linked images!

Adobe Pagemaker 6.5

Use the following menu options: Window/Show Colors. Double click "colors" in palette and select Model to be CMYK and Type to be Process. Please be advised that Pagemaker does not successfully represent CMYK color on the monitor.

The following programs do not have the capability to convert to CMYK. No worry, we will convert it for you free of charge!

Adobe Illustrator
Select File/Document color mode/CMYK color

Adobe Photoshop
If the file already exists select the following menu options: Image/Mode/CMYK When starting a new file select CMYK for the mode before clicking OK.

Corel Draw 9
Select each object you want to convert. Select the Fill tool and click Fill Color Dialog. Make sure the Color model is CMYK. For each object with an outline: Select the Outline tool and click the Outline Color Dialog. Make sure the Color model is CMYK.

Quark Xpress 4.1
Use the following menu options: Edit/Edit Colors/Show Colors in Use/Highlight Color and click Edit. Change model to CMYK and deselect Spot color. Remember to send us your layout and linked images!

Microsoft Publisher 2000
Microsoft Publisher defaults to RGB. It is easy to convert everything to a CMYK color space or to start a new document using the CMYK color space.

Use the following menu options: Tools/Commercial Printing Tools/ Color Printing and select Process colors (CMYK). Please note that all images incorporated into a layout need to be linked and not embedded in order to maintain the CMYK color space within the image. Using the following menu options does this: Tools/Commercial Printing Tools/Graphics Manager and highlight the embedded image. Click Link and click Browse to locate the original file and link to it. You will then need to send both the images and the layout file to us for printing.

Microsoft Publisher 2003
Select Tools/Commercial Printing Tools/ Color Printing, Select Process Colors (CMYK)