What are the best CMYK values?

[Justin Williams]

Hi just checked gold in flexisign and it gives the following percentages

C 53.3%
M 37.3%
Y 100%
K 14.9%

hope this helps
cheers
jus

[Peter Normington]

Hello Jamie welcome to the boards.

A simple answer to your question It cannot be done that easily. gold is not a colour as such, it has texture and reflections that only paint and or gold leaf, or something like signgold can reproduce, so cymk is not going to give you a result,

Peter

[Justin Williams]

Hi jamie, what are you trying to do with this gold, a sign, some printing??

[grafixdepot]

Thanks for the replies. I am going to re-produce a pub sign but instead of painting it make a digy graphic. I just need something that will be close to gold as you can get with CMYK.

Many Thanks

Jamie

[Peter Normington]

Perhaps you could simulate something?

Peter

[Dave Harrison]

Jamie don’t be a wuss. . get your brushes out ! You can’t put a digi print on a pub sign, thats like wearing wellington boots to bed ! 🙂

There’s a pub up the road from me with a digitally printed sign and it looks so rubbish its unbelievable. ( but then it is a rubbish pub ! )

The only way you are only to print gold is with a thermal printer such as an edge.. but the gold foils come out too shiny and look like gold mirror vinyl !
If you’re careful you might be able to put gold leaf on a print !