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• Spot Colors

  
  Spot color is both a method of printing, and a method of specifying a color. In spot color printing, each color is printed with its own specially mixed ink, not unlike the house paint colors you might have mixed at the local hardware store. By contrast is four-color process printing as defined here. Spot color is used when a color is difficult or impossible to create by combining CMYK inks (an example is the use of a fluorescent or metallic color).
  
  Generally, spot color is useful and more economical when there are only one to three spot colors used, unless it is absolutely necessary to use four or more spot colors that cannot be reproduced using CMYK inks. Using four or more spot colors is more expensive than four-color printing because of the print fees incurred for running each extra color.
  Several spot color systems are available for your use in projects with Pantone being the predominant spot color printing system used in the United States.