Re: DMax and Backlit Displays via Inkjet
Re: DMax and Backlit Displays via Inkjet
- Subject: Re: DMax and Backlit Displays via Inkjet
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 01:03:27 EDT
In a message dated 4/24/01 8:54:18 PM, email@hidden writes:
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What's the story on getting deep colors and rich blacks when making
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backlit displays on ink jet printers?
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To my uneducated mind, I'd think I want a 400 DMax.
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Are there any rips or ways to profile that will give that much density?
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Is it a good idea?
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Is there a better way?
Backlit film tends to hold the ink on the surface, and 400 percent is more
than the surface will typically hold without mottling and other issues.
Besides, added ink will make the blacks blacker, but cannot make the
primaries more dense, so any advantage gets lost in the balance provided by
the profile. Pigmented ink can provide more density (and a longer use life,
dyes are very fugative in this application), and in combination with the
right film, and careful spectro based profiles, you should be able to get
improved results. The next question is whether to profile the film as a
reflective or a transmissive. Its not quite either, and even with a good tr
ansparancy reader there are problems with both approaches...
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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