On Sep 25, 2013, at 1:17 AM, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: >> The one publishing application which got colour right was Cerilica's Truism > > Never heard of it. Do you have a link?
Sadly long-vanished --- can't recall who bought the copyrights. I'm sure some searching would turn up something beyond my wistful mentionings of it though. >> --- it used individual ink definitions instead of multiple ones, and >> instead, had a concept of ``substrate'' w/ attendant colour and ink >> absorption characteristics at the page level. >> >> This allowed one to define a spread has having two _different_ types of >> paper (which often happens when one has a cross-over ad at the inside front >> (or back) and first (or last) pages of a magazine) and to have the ad >> previewed on-screen as it would actually print. >> >> One could also do coloured paper and preview how the ink would appear on it, >> or separations w/ arbitrary ink (an amazing example I saw once was a jeans >> catalog printed in blue and brown which looked amazingly lifelike despite >> being printed w/ only 2 inks --- this inspired me to do a bell pepper >> vegetable display box once using red and green inks which we mixed to create >> brown so as to make a quite nice print of a full-colour photograph despite >> using only 2 inks). > > This is all extremely tricky, because one has to ask at which level this can > be implemented. Is it the provider of digital colour swatches? The design > program? The print operator? > > IMHO, it's up to the operator and versatile printing software to handle this > issue. Designers' options are fairly limited in this regard. Designers' options are limited 'cause they limit themselves to the default featuresets of programs. If this becomes a default feature and is handled robustly it's a no-brainer. William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
