Re: Changing basic colors
Re: Changing basic colors
- Subject: Re: Changing basic colors
- From: bruce fraser <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:50:04 -0700
At 4:29 PM -0500 8/8/02, Bruce J. Lindbloom wrote:
I wrote:
Blue and red inks absorb wider chunks of the visible spectrum than cyan and
magenta, and the result will generally be a smaller printer gamut.
Tony Sanna replied:
It all depends on what you're trying to do...
(And then followed Tony's fascinating discussion about SACO's cyan, red,
yellow brown [cRyB] separation technique for printing a package for
chocolates.)
I agree that for specific applications, custom inks can have distinct
advantages. My comment above spoke of gamut *size*, and I would bet that the
cRyB gamut is smaller than a standard CMYK gamut (maybe not everywhere, but
overall). I did not say (or at least I did not intend to say) that the use
of custom inks is inferior across the board.
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Just to throw in my $0.02, while it's entirely likely that you'll get
a smaller gamut with custom inks, the trade-off is that in some
regions of the smaller gamut, you'll have much finer gradations
available than you would in a larger gamut using standard inks.
Gamuts only tell you the limits: what goes on inside the gamut is
equally important...
Bruce
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