Look around and you will see that architects and engineers are incorporating more color data into their designs these days. This is largely due to the flourishing influence of BIM applications such as REVIT and Bentley. Likewise, research has shown, time and again, that color details reduce mistakes and greatly increase communication as compared to the traditional black/white format. This new approach has demanded that these companies now print their plans in full-color. Most AEC companies already have a wide-format color plotter in place, but what happens with the work load exceeds the capabilities of that plotter? They could always get a second one, or a third. But, perhaps, it time for a complete paradigm shift. In that case, see how the …show more content…
When it comes to photo-quality and/or museum quality printing, traditional inkjet gives you fantastic results. Normally, high-end graphics are printed on a machine that uses 8 or 12 different color channels. The extra colors provide a much wider color-space which allows the machine to accurately replicate millions of colors. However, these are not typically the types of plotters that you find in the average architect or construction office. Conversely, the standard, general-purpose plotter uses a 4-color profile: CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black).
Of course, several variants of these CMYK-based printers exist. For example, Canon iPF printers use two different blacks, a dye and a pigment, while HP utilizes a dedicated Gray ink. However, CMYK color theory is the basic science behind both of these. Just don’t expect 12-color results out of a 4-color machine.
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Toner will not streak or bleed in the case of getting wet. Most users can immediately identify with this if they are in the habit of highlighting information on a construction plan printed on an inkjet plotter.
Another beneficial aspect of toner is evident when users print a black/white image. Regarding the ColorWave system, only black TonerPearls are consumed. Nearly all inkjet printers will consume some color ink when printing black/white files. For example, HP Designjets traditionally render all grayscale with a green tint.
Unlike inkjets, the media type used in the ColorWave does not determine the final print quality. This is because CystalPoint technology enables the toner to instantly crystalize on the surface of the print media. Comparatively, Inkjet plotters require the ink to be absorbed into the media. This is why full-color inkjet prints look horrible on lower grade papers. A heavier weight substrate is needed to fully accept the extra ink needed for maps and posters. Conversely, ColorWave Océ plotters are capable of printing full-color posters on regular, 20-pound engineering bond without sacrificing any print quality.
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Making a cyanotype for the first time was a fun experience. A cyanotype is blueprint (literally) that makes a silhouette of the object. It was an early kind of photograph that was created by John Herschel (Stulik, 4). As I learned the process of making the cyanotype and made two prints myself, I noticed that it is similar as taking a picture with a camera when it comes to their uses and processes
A Lithograph was produced by firstly drawing the image on a flat stone surface in an oil based medium, the stone is then moistened with water which is repelled by the oil the surface is then inked with an oil based ink which is unable to adhere to the wet surface. A Chromolithograph is a coloured picture produced by making and superimposing multiple lithographic prints, each of which adds a different colour. The process of colour lithography was first experimented with in the early 1800s by Aloys Senefelder the inventor of lithography, while ‘chromolithography’ was patented in 1837 by a French printer Godefroy Engelmann.
HP has come up with a new product called the desk jet printer with inkjet technology manufactured at the Vancouver plant. The manufacturing process consists of two stages namely PCAT and FAT. The PCAT (Printed circuit assembly test), involves the assembly and testing of electronic components on a circuit board. FAT (Final assembly and test), involves the assembly of motors
The dye transfer process major manufacturers in the 60’s were Kodak and Polaroid. It was the most successful and popular of color photography. The material used for the dye-transfer process was manufactured starting in 1945. After 1993, when it stopped being manufactured, people had to stockpile the materials to keep producing their own dye-transfer prints. Today, after about seventy years, the dye-transfer prints are valued and very highly considered to be stable, but only a handful of people still make prints who use the dye-transfer process remain. After 1991, Kodak discontinued the Pan Matrix Film, which was used for printing from separations, and in 1994, Kodak ceased production completely along with the rest of the dye transfer materials.
Laser treatments are not able to remove all ink colors. They fail to remove brown and ink colors. These can be removed by natural
The dark ink gets its shading from a mixture of different colored inks mixed together. The primary shade of ink to show up on the hydrogen peroxide mobile phase channel paper was trailed by pink, orange, yellow, violet then blue. However, in ethanol mobile phase channel paper was trailed by blue and pink. These two color only clearly visibled. The colors isolated the way did as a result of the distinctions in their atomic qualities, particularly, their solvency in hydrogen peroxide, ethanol and their rate of ingestion by the paper. The most solvent and promptly ingested ink shading was the blue. The slightest dissolvable and minimum absorbable ink shading was the pink. In hydrogen peroxide mobile phase distance migrated by solvent front is 9.9cm. In ethanol mobile phase distance migrated by solvent front is
Chinese Scholar artists like Chen Rong disapproved of the painting media of their professional contemporaries, opting to use black ink on paper, as opposed to the otherwise popular color on silk. The simplicity, of plain black over the simple backdrop of widely available paper, appealed to the Confucian and Daoist Scholars. As such, Chen Rong painted his Nine Dragons on a large paper scroll with black ink. (Little)
Wood-type printing allowed new typefaces to be created and used for printing cheaper than ever before. Technological advances permitted machine-set typography to be printed on machine-manufactured paper with high-speed steam-powered printing presses. The use of color lithography passed the aesthetic experience of colorful images from the privileged few to the whole of society.
Now that we have established color as a storytelling tool, we can begin to talk about color for aesthetic reasons. The following information on color palettes comes from the article How To Use Color In Film: 50+ Examples of Movie Color Palettes by Mary Risk. Color palettes are the major colors used in a film. There are five main color palettes; monochromatic, complementary, analogous, triadic, and discordant. Also, although these color palettes are used mainly for aesthetic purposes, that does not mean that there are no psychological elements.
The inks are not pure substances since the pigments get separated along the filter paper.
Figure 2 show the printable color gamut of three commercial printers and Table 1 show the gamut volumes of them. Results represent the gamut achievable with the given printer. Therefore the achievable or reproducible color gamut for Konica Minolta CF3102 is significantly larger than two other printers especially in yellow region for paper A as commercially available paper. In the case of the Konica Minolta Bizhub C450 and Konica Minolta bizhub C451, the Konica Minolta bizhub C451 has larger gamut volume although Konica Minolta bizhub C450 has larger color gamut in blue and magenta area. Figure 2 show printers produce relatively different color gamut shape. As mentioned before comparing the results in terms of gamut volume show, Konica Minolta CF3102 printer has larger gamut volume for the selected paper A. Therefore this printer chooses for investigation the effect of paper characteristics in printable color gamut and reproducibility.
Determining dot gain, print contrast and ink trap allows us to analyze press sheets and colour bars to find the most favourable running conditions to reproduce a proof for a job. In order to retrieve these print characteristics, multiple density readings are taken with a densitometer from the print control strip to interpret values and use them to asses quality. Dot gain (or tonal value increase) is the increase in the size of a printed dot from plate to press sheet (also in prepress from file/film to print). Dot gain occurs in every printing process and are “most visible in the midtones and deep shadows” (Lawler, 1995), by testing gain and using the dot area equation – a set of adjustment values can be decided upon for how to print the rest of the job. Proofs with high contrast have greater shadow detail - d...
These requirements might seem obvious at first, yet it is exactly the demand and supply on each one of them causes the limitation and control of this technology. The 3D printer is no longer an equipment which only can be found in a scientific lab, but people can buy it on Amazon with the price from 600 to 2000 dollars. Moreover, there are numerous companies which start to invest new functions upon the 3D printer such as the three types of 3D printers that have been advertised in the “Top 3 Best 3D Printers You Must Have” video: “the Tiko, the Palette, and the Moonray” . For instance, the Tiko printer is a new type of “uni-body” 3D printer which prevents the unstable printing problem caused by the traditional “separate three-piece rails frame” . Also, its 1 kg rolls large “internal filler” and the “close-build chamber” also promises the project to be more “reliable and accurate” . What the most considerate for the consumer should be its “wireless connectivity” . This way, any consumer can print anything at anywhere they want as long as they have a downloaded Tiko app on their cellphones or laptops. As for the Palette 3D printer, it wedded to developing the “controllable multi-color functionality” because most of the previous settings of the 3D printers only allow the consumer to print with one color at a time . Therefore, the
Paper Chromatography is an analytical technique for separating and naming mixtures that are or can be colored, especially pigments. This process can be used in secondary or primary schools in ink experiments, but this method has been largely replaced by thin layer chromatography; however, it is still a powerful teaching tool. Two-way paper chromatography, also called two-dimensional chromatography, involves using two solvents and rotating the paper 90⁰ in between. This method is useful for separating complex mixtures of similar compounds, for example, amino
The other type of printer that many of us may want in our house is a photo printer. These printers are mostly ink-jet printers. They are able to print colored images. Most of the photo printers are now programed so all you have to do is stick your memory ...