Silver Ink

FX Metallic Standard Range
Spot Colours

See below our range of colour options that use our gold base to add a shimmer and sparkle to your designs. Ask your client account manager to supply you with a printed sample to see them for yourself.

How to Use

To incorporate these metallic spot colours into your design talk with your client account manager and they will supply the required swatch libraries for use with the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite.

Gold ink can be used as a standard spot colour to enhance your designs. Unlike the FX ranges above this spot colour isn’t tinted, it just uses the base gold metallic ink to add shimmering gold to your print.

How do I set up a spot colour

1. Create a swatch called “Gold” (Note: name is case sensitive)

2. Define the Colour Type as “Spot”

3. Make spot colour 100% Yellow.

Other important spot colour info

• Place all Gold spot colour objects on a separate layer from any other objects.

• When exporting, make sure you use the PDFX/4 standard, include 3mm bleed, and make sure the create acrobat layers check box is ticked. For more details for exporting, visit our file prep page.

Silver ink can be used as a standard spot colour to enhance your designs. Unlike the FX ranges above this spot colour isn’t tinted, it just uses the base silver metallic ink to add shimmering silver to your print.

How do I set up a spot colour

1. Create a swatch called “Silver” (Note: name is case sensitive)

2. Define the Colour Type as “Spot”

3. Make spot colour 100% Cyan.

Other important spot colour info

• Place all Silver spot colour objects on a separate layer from any other objects.

• When exporting, make sure you use the PDFX/4 standard, include 3mm bleed, and make sure the create acrobat layers check box is ticked. For more details for exporting, visit our file prep page.