Know about CMYK and Pantone Colors

Guangdong Sihai Iron-Printing and Tin-Making Co., Ltd with 4 Fuji iron-printing machines, we provide OEM printing on aerosol tin can for customers, before doing printing on the tinplate, we will need customers to send us their artworks, the artworks can be CMYK and Pantone color, if you need to print pantone colors,  you need to tell us the pantone colors number.

What's the difference between CMYK and Pantone colors?

CMYK colors is a combination of CYAN, MAGENTA, YELLOW and BLACK. Pantone colors are color codes that stand for a specific shade.

Simply, CMYK is a process printing system, and Pantone is a popular spot color system. Pantone spot colors are solid inks assigned numbers that look the same no matter who prints them. But CMYK colors are created on the press using a mix between Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and black inks.

Since there are many factors will cause change of CMYK colors, which are not guaranteed to be perfectly reproduced between printers or even print jobs.

Many customers will use pantone color for their logos, as it’s important for their company to keep the same logo color on the products.