Re: Offset printing of black-and-white photographs in a page with abundant color
Re: Offset printing of black-and-white photographs in a page with abundant color
- Subject: Re: Offset printing of black-and-white photographs in a page with abundant color
- From: Randy Norian <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 11:19:38 -0500
We often ran 4C 'grey' images to have fine control over the tone/ warmth on press. This was facilitated by applying a fairly high level of GCR to the images, so we used cmy for fine-tuning and still allowed black to carry most of the image.
Randy N
> On Jul 26, 2016, at 10:49 AM, Jorge . <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> When placing a black-and-white photograph in a page that will also have
> plenty of other photographs, illustrations and layout elements in color,
> part of a magazine that will be printed in offset, is there a rationale for
> preferring that gray values of that photograph are printed using only black
> ink or with a mix of all CMYK inks instead?
>
> The particular CMYK combination I mean is the one I would automatically get
> in the likes of Photoshop by converting the grayscale image to the target
> CMYK color space using ICC profiles.
>
> —
> Jorge
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