Hexachrome is a six color printing process designed by Pantone Inc that expands the four color printing ... color printing system. In addition to custom CMYK inks, Hexachrome added orange colour orange ... ref name Hexachrome System cite web title Pantone Expands the Color Range With Hexachrome System url ... than ninety percent of Pantone colors ref name HOWOS cite web title Hexachrome on web offset line ... Pantone Inc. accessdate 3 March 2012 ref . The inventor of Hexachrome was Richard Herbert, who ... ref name Richard Herbert . Software In order to use the Hexachrome process in a digital printing ... to work in an RGB color space more typical of computer work ref name Hexachrome Printing cite web last Reid first Dan title Hexachrome Printing url http www.digitaloutput.net content ContentCT.asp ... contains a set of Adobe plug ins used by printers and designers who use the Hexachrome system ref name Hexachrome Printing . The QuarXPress and Adobe InDesign come with the Hexachrome system already installed and enabled, making it a simple system to use ref name Hexachrome Printing . Purpose The main purpose of Hexachrome was to create a printing ink system that could depict brighter and clearer ... prints also allows for more accurate skin tones and pastels ref name Pantone . The Hexachrome system ... systems, Hexachrome also increases efficiency as it produces many more spot color spot colors ... for Hexachrome also eliminates the number of washes required on the printer therefore saving ... companies ref name Story . Some software companies that employed the Hexachrome system were Aldus ... ref name Story . Not only do large corporate companies use the Hexachrome system, but most photographers ... . The Hexachrome color system is used as the worldwide standard in textile production in fields such as the fashion ..., the Hexachrome system is employed internationally ref name Story . See also CcMmYK color model ... Hexachrome patent announcement news release, May 26 1998 color space Category Printing terminology ... more details
In offset printing , a spot color is any color generated by an ink pure or mixed that is printed using a single run . The widely spread offset printing process is composed of four spot colors Cyan , Magenta , Yellow , and Keyline Key black commonly referred to as CMYK . More advanced processes involve the use of six spot colors Hexachrome hexachromatic process , which add Orange colour Orange and Green to the process termed CMYKOG . The two additional spot colors are added to compensate for the ineffective reproduction of faint tints and shades tints using CMYK colors only. However, offset technicians around the world use the term spot color to mean any color generated by a non standard offset ink such as metallic , fluorescent , spot varnish, or custom hand mixed inks. When making a multi color print with a spot color process, every spot color needs its own lithographic film. All the areas of the same spot color are printed using the same film, hence, using the same lithographic plate . The dot gain , hence the screen angle and line frequency , of a spot color vary according to its intended purpose. Spot lamination and UV coatings are sometimes referred to as spot colors , as they share the characteristics of requiring a separate lithographic film and print run. Computer methods There are various methods to incorporate rather sophisticated patterns of spot colors in the final prepress artwork. Software applications such as Adobe InDesign , Adobe Illustrator , CorelDRAW , QuarkXPress and Scribus may generate spot colors as additional channels. Adobe Photoshop can also be used to generate soft edges widely known as feathered edges of spot colors. The dissolve effect provided by Adobe Photoshop layer patterns can be generated for any spot color. Optimizing usage Generally the cost and potential for problems for a print job increase as one adds more spot colors, due to the increased cost and complexity of added process inks and films, and requiring more runs per finish ... more details
a relatively small color gamut . Processes such as Pantone s proprietary six color CMYKOG Hexachrome ... spectra and empirical parameters. ref name Sharma See also Hexachrome Spot color CcMmYK color ... more details
otheruses Watercolors disambiguation Image Dolceacqua43 Artista locale mentre dipinge un acquarello.jpg thumb 300px An artist working on a watercolor using a round brush Watercolor American English US or watercolour British English UK and English in the Commonwealth of Nations Commonwealth , also aquarelle from French, is a painting method. A watercolor is the Processing medium medium or the resulting Work of art artwork in which the paint s are made of pigments suspended in a water soluble vehicle. The traditional and most common support for watercolor paintings is paper other supports include papyrus , bark papers, plastics, vellum or leather , textile fabric , wood, and canvas . Watercolors are usually transparent, and appear luminous because the pigments are laid down in a relatively pure form with few fillers obscuring the pigment colors. Watercolor can also be made opaque by adding Chinese white. In East Asia, watercolor painting with inks is referred to as brush painting or scroll painting. In Chinese painting Chinese , Korean painting Korean , and Japanese painting it has been the dominant medium, often in monochrome black or browns. India, Ethiopia and other countries also have long traditions. Fingerpainting with watercolor paints originated in China. History Although watercolor painting is extremely old, dating perhaps to the cave paintings of paleolithic Europe, and has been used for illustrated manuscript manuscript illumination since at least Egyptian times but especially in the European Middle Ages, its continuous history as an art medium begins in the Renaissance. The German Northern Renaissance artist Albrecht D rer 1471 1528 who painted several fine botanical, wildlife and landscape watercolors, is generally considered among the earliest exponents of the medium. An important school of watercolor painting in Germany was led by Hans Bol 1534 1593 as part of the D rer Renaissance . File Duerer a young hare.jpg thumb left Albrecht D rer , Young Hare , ... more details
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