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This has to be one of the best videos I’ve ever seen. Please take a few minutes out of your day and watch this video. It’s great to see the passion people take with their jobs to produce the best color possible. Our business truly is a craft run by passionate people who genuinely care about their work. If you have an appreciation for Art, you will truly enjoy this video. What could be more important to producing great color on press than ink? Tip:...
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Here is a simple little trick that will create the best looking screen captures. Printing screen captures can be a very tedious process for a pressman. The process can be made much, much easier if the screen capture file is converted to CMYK using a maximum GCR (gray component replacement) setting. This Max GCR process will remove all the cyan, magenta and yellow from the image in the neutral tone areas resulting in the type being composed of just black ink. Other colored...
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Printing chocolate can be very demanding. The problem is a rich, appealing image of chocolate contains all four process colors and depending what profile is used, or converted to, there is a greater chance of not getting the results you’re looking for. An ICC color profile with a high percentage of GCR (gray component replacement) will produce the best results. Using GCR will lower the contaminate color (in the case of chocolate – cyan) and replace with a...
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5. Terminology is everything. Describing color is difficult because it is a sensation. It’s as difficult as trying to describe all of our other sensations: how something smells, tastes or sounds. Often, vague terms such as flat, muddy, too warm, too cold or needs more snap are used to describe color. For example, what if an image is too warm? Does too warm mean too red, too yellow or too magenta?Does too cold mean too blue, too green or too cyan? Flat typically...
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