What is CMYK?

CMYK stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black and is the color space commonly used within the printing industry.

Before your packaging is sent to our manufacturing facilities for print, it is important that your artwork on our dielines are all in CMYK.

Not converting your artwork properly to CMYK color mode will result in inaccurate color output since the printing press can only operate using CMYK colors.

Note:  As part of our process, we conduct an additional pre-press check to ensure that the files are perfect before moving onto production. During the pre-press check, PakFactory is not responsible for correcting your files in the event of the print file not meeting our standard. We require our customers to correct their files. However, we are more than happy to advise and guide you through making the necessary corrections. 

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