Number of Colors
Number of Colors
- Subject: Number of Colors
- From: "Sid Phillips" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:35:25 -0400
I've read where "CMYK Devices" can only reproduce about 4,000 colors using
halftone and ink combinations. Would this be true for all CMYK printers
(offset press, laser and inkjet)? If it's not true would anyone know offhand
about how many colors the different systems can typically reproduce?
If this is true then many of my associates can understand this much better
than gamut theories, plots and projections. It's much easier for them to
wrap their minds around "16.7 million vs. 4,000" than it is for them to
visualize 3D colorspaces.
I do try to teach them some of the science of color, but at the end of the
mumbo-jumbo if I can say "In summary, we can only reproduce about 0.02
percent of the colors you can create on your monitor" then they'll have a
much better understanding of why we can't hit that particularly lurid shade
of green they want in their images.
Thanks much!
Sid Phillips
Milliken & Company
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