CMYK

About CMYK Sticker Printing

With CMYK Sticker Printing, we are working with process color, where we combine primary colors (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black) to literally create thousands of colors. To make a certain shade of orange, for example, we print small dots of magenta ink directly over the top of the yellow ink. With any CMYK printing, there can be very minor resulting streaks and dots.

The subtle dithering is entirely due to the CMYK process. In most cases, you won’t notice the dot pattern unless you look through a magnifying glass, but it can be more noticeable with certain colors than others. Colors of a light shade that use small quantities of all 4 process colors are the hardest to balance. Bear this in mind when designing your sticker.