100# cover in royal/true blue?

[scott campbell]

I'm looking for some 100# cover in a true blue color. Not seeing anything close on the French site. Anyone have a source for this color?

[James flames]

Yeah, I've been looking for a paper color like that too at 100#. No such luck.

[lil_tuffy]

Recycled Paper | EAMES Paper | Neenah Paper : Cobalt Blue

[vrooooom]

Yeah, there's a couple, but nothing I can find over 65# cover.

[huthbot]

Watch out on that neenah stock, it likes to curly up on you if you get too frisky with big bleeds of color. Try the manly way and print blue on white paper...make sure to have a paper towel handy... to wipe the tears away.

[pchavez923]

Damn, I was looking for paper similar to this blue but couldn't find much. Everything was either too expensive, not made in the weight I was looking for, or couldn't get shipped in time. I ended up going w/ French Nightshift Blue instead. Big BIG difference.

[vrooooom]

Looks pretty close on my monitor (final product) to the shade on french paper's website, but yeah they can be tricky.

This whole issue is a good one to read up on. I get a lot of customers who want to match ink to paper/fabric/whatever, and there's a lot of levels of complexity in each. It's helpful to work backwards by designing with materials in mind, because different industries have different degrees of accuracy in their color handling.

If I'm planning on using a colored stock, I find the stock before I put it into a design. If it's a vibrant color, I'll accept that it might not be possible to find a match, since dyeing a substance and putting ink on a surface are different approaches with different effects. This comes up a lot with fabric matching, where the saturation of an intense color on fabric can be impossible to replicate on paper. You just approximate. A lot of "bright" colors get that from being better reflectors of light. That's also why a lot of these colors are typically transparent. You've got more control if you're able to just print ink and not have to match paper and ink and a ribbon that goes with it all. It's an analog world.

Well, I was trying to source where I was reading about all of this, but all I got was this manual.