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Recipe for gold and silver on printer
Posted by:
elrod
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Date: September 25, 2001 10:58AM
Someone recently posted a recipe for a gold and silver on an inkjet by manipulating the color %. Could that person repost or if someone remembers. Does anyone have this a RGB versus the other. My simple software, as far as I can tell only allows me to manipulate RGB, or I don't know how to find the other Re: Recipe for gold and silver on printer
Posted by:
Tom Kirkman
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Date: September 25, 2001 11:11AM
You will have a hard time doing it with RGB. CMYK is the only way I have found to get a nice tone that is almost metallic. At any rate, here are the percentages I have come up with - Gold C-18% M-37% Y-81% K-6% Silver C-9% M-3% Y-0% K-48% Bronze C-24% M-60% Y-81% K-12% If you have a Macintosh and your ink jet or laser supports the ColorSync standard, you will find these percentages dead on for these colors. If you have a PC its a bit of a crapshoot, but you can still do it. You'll have to just print a few test swatches and adjust the percentages until you get what you want. For more information on this sort of thing, consult the Nov/Dec 2000 RodMaker. ............................ Another way
Posted by:
William
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Date: September 25, 2001 01:28PM
I have seen special foil printing kits in the office supply stores that are made for use in home ink jet and laser printers. I am not exactly sure how they work or how well. But it is something you could look into if you wanted. The sheets are definitely metallic and I assume the foil comes off in whatever you would normally print in ink. Re: Another way
Posted by:
elrod
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Date: September 25, 2001 04:16PM
What software or printers enable CMYK adjustments? I have PC based and a Epson 880 at home a HP 970Cxi at work. Any ideas? Re: Another way
Posted by:
William
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Date: September 25, 2001 08:16PM
You would probably need some type of desktop publishing or image editing software. Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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