Why most ink cartridges have just yellow & no green ink ?
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From: Mr John FO Evans on 6 Jul 2010 01:24 In article <4c3091e0$1_1(a)news.tm.net.my>, "TE Cheah" <4ws(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Have you noticed that the cyan ink of probably every brand > looks like just blue ( with no green content ) ? Even the 1st > cyan colour in wikipedia page on CMYK > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMYK_color_model > looks just blue. > I may add green ink into a "cyan" ink, to get greener printouts. I think you might do better to adjust the colour balance of your picture. -- _ _________________________________________ / \._._ |_ _ _ /' Orpheus Internet Services \_/| |_)| |(/_|_|_> / 'Internet for Everyone' _______ | ___________./ http://www.orpheusinternet.co.uk
From: RCC on 7 Jul 2010 09:59
In message <na.d0453d5132.a903c0mijas(a)orpheusmail.co.uk>, Mr John FO Evans <mijas(a)orpheusmail.co.uk> writes >In article <4c3091e0$1_1(a)news.tm.net.my>, "TE Cheah" <4ws(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Have you noticed that the cyan ink of probably every brand >> looks like just blue ( with no green content ) ? Even the 1st >> cyan colour in wikipedia page on CMYK >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMYK_color_model >> looks just blue. >> I may add green ink into a "cyan" ink, to get greener printouts. > > I think you might do better to adjust the colour balance of your picture. > People see colour differently. Produce a colour print with perfect matching, excellent workflow, precision printing: hang it in a gallery under perfect lighting, and 10,000 people see 10,000 slightly different pictures. The vast majority see something very close to what the photographer intended, but not all As you seem to have a problem that is unique to you, perhaps you should check that you are not "optically different". Red-green colour blindness is common, but other more subtle differences do exist. I think the view of this forum is that the existing colour print process and inks are fine for most of us. -- Richard C |