Printed Colour Atlas
Where can I look up the CMYK-colour values?The DIGITAL COLOUR ATLAS contains this CMYK swatchbook.It consists of three areas with each 33 pages with the CMYK colour area for the offset printing conforming to standards on coated and uncoated paper and paper suitable for newspapers.
The supplemental CMYK-Atlas on paper.
All colour fields have been measured individually and have been deposited to the software. This date base is used for all CMYK calculations and is consulted within the software – thus is the way how the DIGITAL COLOUR ATLAS reaches highly exact and unique documented CMYK-results.
We do not produce the CMYK atlas ourselfes, we order it from a notabler Berlin Satzstudio satzinform.
Coverage of the CMYK Colour Space
A page of the CMYK atlas.
The CMYK atlas shows the CMYK colour space in constant nuances on every paper grade:
- CMYK gradation: Firstly the several colours for printing are displayed in steps of 5 percent reaching from 5% .... 100%.
- CMYK kombination: Then CMYK-combinations and those with black are displayed.
CMY: 0...100% in 10%-steps, additional 5%, 15%, 25%
all these kombinations also with black: 10%, 20%, 35%, 50%
ISO conforming print quality
The print according to ISO-Norm is documented very accurately.
The above mentioned 5584 nuances have been printed on three different types of paper according to the industrial norm.
| Procedure | Parameter |
|---|---|
| Art print | matte coated, coated woodfree, white, woodfree Schneidersöhne LuxoArt Silk 170 g/m² (ECI type of paper 2; the result of the print is according to ECI/FOGRA also usable as reference for the paper class 1 raster frequency: 175 lpi; 70er raster |
| Naturpapier | uncoated Offsetprintpaper, white Munken Lynx 200 g/m²; 1,13 vol. (ECI type of paper 4) raster frequency: 138 lpi, 54er raster |
| Newsprint (Recycling) | uncoated Offsetprintpaper, white Recystar 150 g/m²; 1,3 vol. (ECI type of paper 4) raster frequency: 138 lpi, 54er raster |
What is the reason for the CMYK-results being extremely precise?
- The ca. 6000 CMYK colour fields per type represent a vastly higher density of the data than the ICC profile of the ECI (usually using 1,465 colour fields as reference), which are otherwiese used in the offset printing as basis for calculation.
- The CMYK-parameter are exactly documented (see the above listing).
- The results of the calculation can be immediately looked up, the software application also states in which position within the book the corresponding colour field can be found.
- The software suggests several recommendations for every comaprison of colours.
- There is with the sophisticated calculation of the best result, which is calculated from several CMYK fields the possibility to further enhance the CMYK-result.
On the base of the handinhandbuch cmyk the DIGITAL COLOUR ATLAS CMYK-colours identifies as exact as the experienced „human“ retrograph but much more faster!
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