From: Katharine Thayer (kthayer@pacifier.com)
Date: 08/15/03-05:35:42 AM Z
Richard Sullivan wrote:
>
> When printing color gum or carbon what is the proper order of the colors?
>
> Is it as noted: CMYK?
>
> Or is it some other order and what is the rational?
>
If there's a "proper" order to print gum, I don't know about it. The
order I read somewhere when I started printing tricolor gum was yellow,
magenta, cyan, and that's the order I've always followed. (I don't use a
black printer and I don't go the CMYK route to color separations, BTW,
because that really screws up your colors, but that's a whole different
issue.) As long as you use transparent pigments, as I do, I don't think
the order actually matters. If one or more of the pigments you use is an
opaque pigment, like cadmium yellow for example, then there may be
issues putting that opaque color over other colors; that's the only case
I can think of where order might matter. Some people like to register
on a lightbox, and I think those people usually put the blue down first
so they can see the image better to register by. Except for the
transparent-opaque thing, I think it's just a matter of personal
preference or habit.
Katharine
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