>Having seen your gums I agree about "gee". Nothing *could* improve them. I
think
>the answer to the question of layers is that no matter how perfect your
>seperation negatives, and no matterhow close you are to ASTM CMYK colors,
>the correct hue and saturation still dependson the relative strengths of the
>layers. Since this is impossible to mix you may have to correct and correct
>with additional layers, hopefully converging on your goal. If you are not
>particular about color balance and just want
>.something pleasant looking then less layers will work.
I was talking about multicolour gum printing where ' kick in the guts' versions
of 'gee' are not dependent on the number of coats as a full range of tone on a
step wedge can be got from three coats.
The strength of the layers is obviously important in CMYK but there are a hell
of a lot of other factors to be taken into account which is probably the reason
for using more than three coats.
But in this case 'seeing' is understanding.
I am not suggesting that people should not achieve what they will in the manner
they will.
Terry King