Why do some PMS colors fade while others keep their hues?
The fading is due to ink burnout. I recently saw the effects of ink burnout. During the bidding stage, I asked a client whether we needed to match any paper types or PMS ink colors to family pieces. The client said no. When we were on press, the client brought in a family piece from another printer, and we found that some of the PMS ink colors did not match the PMS book. Nor did they match the piece we were running, which did match the PMS book. Their prior piece had burned out significantly. The client decided to have us match the previously printed piece, so we used the same paper, ink, and aqueous coating. Although the new pieces differ from the company color pallet and the PMS book, all family pieces match each other. How does ink burnout happen? Ink burnout happens when certain PMS colors are exposed to chemicals, or amines, in aqueous or UV coatings. All PMS colors are made up of a combination of base colors, and 15 base colors make up all the colors in the PMS book. Seven of the
