Re: Reproducing from inkjet printers

["Udo J. Machiels" <udo.machiels@freeuk.com>]

on 2/12/01 1:53 pm, Sal Sessa at sal.sessa@verizon.net wrote:

> 
> Hi folks:
> 
> For those of you that give your clients ink-jet prints (from whatever
> printer,) is it possible, or even advisable to use these prints to reproduce
> from (even for something as lowly as a newsletter?)
> 

Hi,

It depends: If the print is made with the dye-based inks and printed on high
resolution than maybe yes, but you will have difficulties if the print was
made with those pigmented inks like the ones from Epson.
Because those inks suffer from metamerism and the inks have some
fluorescence as well, if you put those prints on a scanner, the colors will
look very different compared with the original, even when you have a good
calibrated scanner.  I tried and it is very difficult to get the colors
where they should be.

Regards,
udo J. Machiels
Atmos Design
United Kingdom






> I didn't think so, but thought I might ask.
> 
> Just curious.
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