Printing neon colors

[StuffFromJosh]

Hi folks. I've been working on an idea for a design with neon colors; however, after a fair amount of research, I found that at least neon green would print in a darker green from some print facilities. Also, that colors, in general, print out different shades and hues on different types of materials. Other than that, I haven't found any other helpful information. I did a search of Zazzle and found a lot of neon designs by folks on invitations and such, and my design is intended for a cornhole set. So, for those who have made neon designs, I'm curious what your experience has been with printing neon colors. I'm using a shade of blacklight purple as the background, and then looking at using red, yellow, pink, white, orange, and maybe green.

[Polenth · Accepted solution]

To get neon or fluorescence colours you would need to use special inks. None of the products here are printed with those inks. Zazzle puts up a warning that the colours won't come out as intended on the design (as long as the product is tagged with the right words). You risk a lot of disappointed customers.

You can use bright colours. If the saturation and value are at the max, you're telling the printer to print the brightest colour it can. But try to go for ones that look normally bright on the screen rather than neon. The screen glows, but the product won't.

[StuffFromJosh]

Ah, nice. I knew there had to be a workaround somehow. Thanks. I'll see what the bright colors and saturation thing do for me.