poniedziałek, 2 lipca 2012

Getting High Quality Color Book Printing

By Laura Gallagher


Pictures on the computer screen doesn't always show the same shades after they're printed out. Snapshots, specially, are made up of millions of shades, which makes it difficult for a regular printer to match. Creating superior color book printing output, may be a lot more challenging than what most people presume. Some printing 101 facts can help turn an amateur looking output to a professional looking one.

Getting quality output requires organization. Whether the person uses a desktop or an advanced type of printer, if there is hardly any knowledge in creating digital prints, his or her efforts may result to a waste of resources. Hence, commercial services are always an option. However, it's also good to know how the system works.

Calibration is the most important factor in creating great output. Adjusting the computer monitor and the printer's colors are important. This means that whatever shade of color is displayed on the screen will be the same one on the printout. A lot of people are not aware of this, and usually end up getting different shades on their photos from the one on their computer monitor.

There are a lot of graphic software programs that has built in photo management capabilities. More often than not, this feature is enough to get the right shades on paper. There are simple ways in getting the desired output, thus, there are also more complicated ones, specially for projects that need high definition shades.

Most professionals also make use of printed shade guides. These charts make it possible to get the best shade matches on the ink counterpart. What it does is it assigns the shades via available software programs, so that it will find the best match on the printer's available shades.

Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key (black) are the colors on the CMYK model. These are the basic colors used on most desktop printers. Small specks of the shades are combined and then used to create the colors that are on the monitor. This model makes use of a lighter background, and then masks the shades in part or as a whole. The inks that are used decreases the light, which helps block any reflection.

To be able to create more realistic looking images, an eight or six color print method can be used. The process also uses cyan, magenta, yellow, and key, with an addition of 4 to 6 shades. This process is also called high fidelity printing. For a 6C Hexachrome model, green and orange are added to the CMYK model. The 4C plus Spot model, on the other hand, makes use of one or more spot shades, in addition to the CMYK model.

After acquiring some basic knowledge on color book printing, it can then be put into practice. It's always best to try it out first prior to jumping on to creating the final output. Those who feel overwhelmed by doing it on their own can grab a self help book about the subject to make it a lot easier. After some trial and error, one can expect to finally get a good grasp on making colored prints on their own.




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