For a medium grey, for example, black dots cover exactly 50 % of the surface (see illustration below). Sometimes the grey is also composed of several screened colours (2nd row), for example to achieve a cooler or warmer colour shade. In both cases – especially with small, fine fonts – the text quality suffers: the letters appear frayed and blurred.<\/p>\n
It is quite different when grey is printed as a special colour – i.e. the grey is filled into the printing machine and then used as a solid tone on paper – then even the finest elements are always sharp, as shown here in the 3rd row.<\/p>\n
Under the magnifying glass you can see the difference quite clearly:<\/p>\n
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But “real grey” text is a visual treat even without a magnifying glass. It is rarely used on business cards, invitations and compliment cards in the age of industrial four-colour printing and is therefore an ideal stylistic element to stand out from the crowd.<\/p>\n Provided you have the right supplier, this optical luxury is not expensive at all. As a card specialist, prinux, for example, also prints business stationery with the spot color grey on a daily basis, so the additional costs for the individual job are kept within narrow limits. Ask for free samples<\/a> of business cards with grey text and\/or a quotation<\/a> – you’ll be in for a pleasant surprise. (Please enter the keyword \u201cspot colour grey” in the comments field)[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For truly noble business cards, black text is often too rich in contrast – a subtle grey is better. However, to ensure that grey text is printed sharply and cleanly even at small font sizes, standard four-colour printing is not sufficient – a spot colour is required. We have already written about spot colours for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[63,62,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-style","category-technology","category-visitenkarten-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t![\"Grauer-Text\"](\"https:\/\/www.prinux.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Grauer-Text.jpg\")
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