Epson printers vs. Canon Printers
We have used Epson printers for ten years now. And we’ve always used Colorbyte Software’s Imageprint as our RIP, and their profiles. Sometimes we would send them profile targets to be made, but we never had to worry about the color. It just worked. Then, recently, we had two printers die – an Epson 9900 […]
The science of color matching
The science of color is based on Color Matching, the ability to match any color using 3 basic colors, red, green and blue. Results of color matching lead through color space, to a color map called the Chromaticity Diagram. That defines a standard way to specify color, and is very useful for understanding how color […]
Understanding color spaces and color gamut
This is a great video to help you understand color spaces and color gamut. How are eyes see something, how a camera sees it, and how a printer sees it are all different. This is a good primer in understanding color from Lyda.com that explains how color is viewed, displayed and created on different devices, […]
The Bluest of Blues – YInMn blue
The accidental hue Throughout history, making a blue pigment has taken hard work—or a stroke of luck CORVALLIS, OREGON—Mas Subramanian’s most celebrated discovery came out of the blue. As a solid state chemist at the chemical giant Dupont, Subramanian had put his name on hundreds of publications and dozens of patents. He identified a new […]
Video by Ten Hun – large format printing and art scanning
We scanned some artwork for Ten Hundred that was destined to be a huge mural. The mural was in a location where Peter couldn’t get scaffolding into, so he couldn’t paint directly on the wall, so they decided to hang a huge banner instead. We at Bellevue Fine Art were lucky enough to be able […]