Re: separations for gum printing
That's exactly what I thought you meant; I was simply saying that the
way I'm reading these threads, others are reporting the opposite:
yellow being the most like a straight diagonal line, and RG most
deviating from a straight line. While I, on the other hand, don't
see that much difference in the curves for the three colors, as long
as the pigment mixes are similarly color-saturated; a deep
saturation yields a deep curve and a lighter mix yields a more
straight line curve, with all three of these pigments. It could be
interesting to see how our curves compare, though because of all the
variables intervening, it would be impossible to draw any meaningful
conclusions from the comparison. If you want to compare my curves to
yours, just click one of the arrows in the gradient below the curve
and that will reverse the direction of the curve.
I'm having the same problem, not getting posts I send, and missing
posts in the discussion.
Cheers,
Katharine
On Nov 20, 2008, at 4:07 PM, Marek Matusz wrote:
Katharine,
Perhaps I did not express myself clearly. My RG channels are almost
always a straight line with some curvature to limit pigment at the
high end, while yellow is deviating most from straight line. I
apply mine in the nagative phase so will have to look how they
relate to your snapshots.
Marek
PS> I am missing posts in this discussion. I have not even seen my
original post as yet, and I see replies to notes that I have not
seen as well. Anybody else having problems?
> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:52:51 -0800
> From: kthayer@pacifier.com
> Subject: Re: separations for gum printing
> To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
>
>
> On Nov 20, 2008, at 10:52 AM, Marek Matusz wrote:
>
> > Mostly everybody agrees that B channel (in the RGB color space)
> > intended for yellow printing always requires a different curve
then
> > RG channels. The B channel is almost always much 'flatter" then
> > oher channels and requires a more pronounced curvature.
>
> Point of clarification: Actually, unless I've been misreading these
> discussions, this is opposite what other people are reporting, which
> is that the separation for yellow requires *less* curvature than the
> others, not more. For example Henry Rattle: "Yes, the Y curve is
> quite a lot closer to the 45 degree line - less sigmoid" On the
> other hand, I find no appreciable difference between the curves for
> the three colors. To me, the fact that some say yellow requires less
> curvature, some say it requires more curvature, and some (well, one
> anyway) says the curves for the three are essentially the same
> suggests that the crucial variable(s) influencing how the curve
looks
> must be something other than the hue range of the color.
>
> I took screen shots of my curves for PV19, thalo, and PY97 (a
> combination I've been using lately for tricolor test prints). The
> curve for yellow is slightly more curved than the other two,
> suggesting slight agreement with Marek that the yellow requires more
> curvature, but not enough to make a never mind, certainly not enough
> to say that the "yellow" curve is way different from the others. I
> didn't note which of the screen shots was which with the magenta and
> thalo, but they are so much alike it really doesn't matter.
>
> http://www.pacifier.com/~kthayer/html/tricolorcurves.html
> katharine
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