What is Hexatone Printing?

Hexatone Printing is Merchdrop’s proprietary six-colour print process, developed to deliver vibrant, high-impact visuals with precision and speed. Unlike traditional four-colour printing (CMYK), Hexatone adds additional shades of grey and black to the standard colour set. This expanded palette allows for a wider colour range, smoother gradients, and greater tonal depth, bringing artwork to life with clarity and boldness.

While six-colour printing isn’t entirely new to the industry, we’ve customised and refined the process to suit our specific production needs. Our version of 6 Colour Printing is optimised for efficiency, consistency, and colour accuracy, ensuring every print looks just as intended, whether you're ordering one or one hundred.

The printing method itself uses a precision-controlled, droplet-based system that builds the image layer by layer, with each colour laid down in fine alignment. This high-resolution approach ensures crisp detail and exceptional clarity in every print.

Our version of six-colour printing has been carefully modified and refined into something entirely new, tailored specifically to the needs of our products and customers. That’s why we’ve given it a name: Hexatone. This process is exclusive to Merchdrop and cannot be found anywhere else. By naming it, we’re making it easy for you to understand exactly what you’re getting when you choose a Hexatone product: a vibrant, high-quality print created with a unique method developed in-house for clarity, flexibility, and professional results.

Hexatone Printing is exclusive to Merchdrop. It’s part of our commitment to giving you not just quality, but clarity in the choices you make.