color specs for an ivory envelope?

[Allied Digital]

Im doing return address labels to be put on an ivory colored envelope. They want the background to match the envelope!
Before I go printing a ka-zillion differnt colored boxes to get a close match on an ivory... does anyone have anything they have use in the past so I can at least begin there???

 

[royster13]

I have at least 20 different shades of ivory envelopes in my sample box.....Probably best to start with a sample from your client.....

 

[ChicagoGraphics]

What royster said

 

[Allied Digital]

I'm obviously doing these for a printing company and they gave me a sample. Will it help if I give you brand name? Is that on the envelopes in your sample box?

 

[Allied Digital]

Thanks all. My customer just emailed that it is covering up existing text and "close" will be good enough. I can do that!
What would we do without S101!!! Hats off this site and thanks again for the speedy reply.

 

[royster13]

"Close" is one of those terms that may mean something different to you and your client....A few years ago I had a client order some key tags and asked for gold....I gave him a metallic gold and he wanted a gold closer to the Edmonton Eskimos which I called yellow.....

 

[mark galoob]

personally, i dont think its possible to match the color of an envelope with a printed background. best thing to do would be pull the printed background out of the art and use the envelope as the background

mark galoob

 

[Sooner Printing]

Or just take the envelopes to a print shop and have them actually printed