PPC-116
CMYK 0/0/0/70 · Base build · Cool neutrals
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- 0
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- 70
Every swatch here is an on-screen APPROXIMATION of a four-colour build. Screens emit light and paper reflects it — no monitor can show you what ink on your stock will do. Ask for a proof.
On coated stock
On coated stock the sealed surface keeps the build at full density: this is the version closest to the on-screen approximation.
On uncoated stock
On uncoated the same build reads darker, duller and lower in contrast — dot gain plus absorption. This is not a fault; it is what that sheet does to process ink.
The full tonal run
Seven values built from this base — three shades that add black, three tints that drop ink. Hierarchy inside one hue, without introducing a second colour.
PPC-116
0/0/0/70
Base build
PPC-116.1
0/0/0/100
Base + 75K
PPC-116.2
0/0/0/100
Base + 50K
PPC-116.3
0/0/0/95
Base + 25K
PPC-116.4
0/0/0/53
75% ink
PPC-116.5
0/0/0/35
50% ink
PPC-116.6
0/0/0/18
25% ink
In production
- A 1-ink build. Fewer inks means fewer things to fall out of register and a colour that repeats run to run.
- Below about 8% a screen stops being reliable — on uncoated it fills in, on coated it can vanish. The tint steps here sit above that floor deliberately, so the light end of a family still prints as a colour rather than as a rumour.
Where we use it
- Brand colour in process work
- Flat solids and panels
- Display type
These are our own tested recommendations, developed on our presses and our stocks. They are not a published colour standard and are not affiliated with any colour system.
Pairs beautifully with
Three combinations that hold up on press. Open one and the Studio starts with the stock, the foil and the ink already locked in.
PPC-116 on Brushed gold metal
PPC-116 on Brushed gold metal is uncoated, so the dots gain: the same 0/0/0/70 build prints a step darker and duller than it looks on screen. That softness is usually the reason to choose this sheet. The warm gold, satin grain ground shows through a translucent build — the printed colour shifts toward the sheet, so sign off against a printed sample.
Compatibility matrix
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PPC-116 on Wild Brown
PPC-116 on Wild Brown is uncoated, so the dots gain: the same 0/0/0/70 build prints a step darker and duller than it looks on screen. That softness is usually the reason to choose this sheet. The warm chocolate brown ground shows through a translucent build — the printed colour shifts toward the sheet, so sign off against a printed sample.
Compatibility matrix
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PPC-116 on 16pt is uncoated, so the dots gain: the same 0/0/0/70 build prints a step darker and duller than it looks on screen. That softness is usually the reason to choose this sheet.
Compatibility matrix
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- What is the CMYK build for PPC-116?
- PPC-116 is C0 M0 Y0 K70 — written 0/0/0/70. It is one of our tested recommendations, not a published standard.
- How does PPC-116 print on uncoated stock?
- On uncoated the same build reads darker, duller and lower in contrast — dot gain plus absorption. This is not a fault; it is what that sheet does to process ink.
- How does PPC-116 print on coated stock?
- On coated stock the sealed surface keeps the build at full density: this is the version closest to the on-screen approximation.
- Should this be a spot ink instead?
- Process is right for photographic work, for anything with many colours in it, and for jobs where the colour needs to be close rather than exact. A spot ink is right when the colour IS the brand and has to be identical on every run, and when the colour sits outside what four inks can reach at all. Process costs nothing extra on a full-colour job; a spot is an extra unit on press.