RE: A metameric match between display and print?
RE: A metameric match between display and print?
- Subject: RE: A metameric match between display and print?
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 19:23:02 -0400
Marco and Ernst,
For sure, Ernst must be refering to another kind of display technologies
which I don't know anything about, personally. So I can't make any comments.
Best / Roger
> -----Original Message-----
> From: colorsync-users-bounces+graxx=email@hidden
> [mailto:colorsync-users-bounces+graxx=email@hidden] On
> Behalf Of Marco Ugolini
> Sent: 11 mai 2010 14:34
> To: Ernst Dinkla
> Cc: ColorSync Users Mailing List
> Subject: Re: A metameric match between display and print?
>
> Ernst Dinkla wrote:
>
> >If chromogenic CMY photography has some analogy to CMY displays then
> >there should be enough contrast possible with just CMY in transmissive
> >light displays,
>
> I thought we were talking about CMY filters that match a known CMY set of
> INKS, not about a process analogous to that of chromogenic processes that
> use CMY light sources. Weren't we? Or are we just talking as if the two
> technologies were equivalent (which they seem to me not to be)?
>
> >it will be harder to achieve it with reflective light displays
>
> But...there cannot be such a thing as a REFLECTIVE monitor display that is
> self-luminous! It's either self-luminous (i.e., EMISSIVE) or not (i.e.,
> REFLECTIVE). Which of the two?
>
> The Amazon Kindle is a reflective display, since it has no self-luminous
> qualities. But we don't expect these CMY monitors to act similarly to the
> Kindle, do we?
>
> Are you saying that we will have to shine a light at these CMY displays to
> make them work? That would come as news to me.
>
> >yet the last could create the better metameric condition for
> >proof and softproof. At least for the CMYK press. For today's N-color
> >wide format inkjets I guess there's no gain in switching to CMY
> >displays. The electrowetting technology allows displays that can be both
> >transmissive and reflective at the same time
>
> And remain self-luminous in either case?
>
> Am I alone in feeling more than a bit puzzled by all this?
>
> Marco Ugolini
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