From: Richard Sullivan (richsul@earthlink.net)
Date: 08/16/03-10:34:55 AM Z
Thanks Katharine.
I thought there was an order with carbon but I could be wrong. That's why I
am asking.
Cheers.
--Dick
At 11:35 AM 8/15/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>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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