Reply To: Color Type: Spot / Color Mode: CMYK

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September 30, 2015 at 10:43 am #78457
David Blatner
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Not a stupid question.
You can make a spot color out of any color mix: RGB, CMYK, or Lab. It does not matter. The only thing that matters for spot colors is the name. Because it is the name that the printer will use to pick colors.

I talk about that a little bit in my title on color at lynda.com.

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