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YELLOW PRINTER [4 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2011-11-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Photoengraving
  • Inks and Colour Reproduction (Graphic Arts)
DEF

In process-colour printing, a single-colour separation negative or positive which requires no further correction and which can be used directly for making printing plates.

OBS

Each printer is referred to by its colour(yellow printer, cyan printer, magenta printer, and black printer). When a printer is a negative, it is more frequently referred to as a colour-separation negative.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Photogravure
  • Encres et couleurs (Industrie graphique)
DEF

Plaque du film photographique, négatif ou positif, terminé et destiné à être copié sur métal [ou autre support].

OBS

Chaque cliché porte le nom de la couleur du film photographique obtenu par sélection (cliché du jaune, du cyan, du magenta et du noir). Lorsqu'il s'agit d'un négatif, on parle plutôt d'un négatif de sélection (négatif du jaune, etc).

OBS

Ne pas confondre avec cliché («plate», en anglais).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Fotograbado
  • Tintas y colores (Artes gráficas)
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Record 2 2009-02-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Graphic Reproduction
  • Inks and Colour Reproduction (Graphic Arts)
  • Computer Graphics
DEF

A method of printing colours in which the printer uses four ink colours(cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) and screens the illustration to break up solid areas into tiny dots.

Key term(s)
  • four color printing
  • four-color process printing
  • process-color printing
  • four colour process printing
  • four color process printing
  • process color printing
  • process colour printing
  • four colour process
  • four color process
  • four-color process
  • four-colour printing
  • four-color printing

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production graphique
  • Encres et couleurs (Industrie graphique)
  • Infographie
DEF

Méthode d'impression des couleurs pour laquelle l'imprimante utilise quatre couleurs d'encre (cyan, magenta, jaune et noir) et trame l'illustration pour changer les surfaces de couleurs unies en petits points.

Spanish

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Record 3 2005-08-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Flexography (Printing)
DEF

A process where color capability is measured and recorded.

CONT

For instance, on a printer, or printing press, strips of various CMYK [cyan, magenta, yellow, black] values are read with a measuring instrument. This information is saved into a file that can be used to define the color space of that printer or press. The same applies to monitors. Usually an emissive colorimeter is attached to the face of the monitor for calibration, and then to measure its color space, or color capability. This process of measuring a color space is called characterization...

OBS

Flexography has the potential to approach and rival the print quality of rivals lithography and gravure, if flexo converters are willing to pay the price. That price is awareness and control of printing variables. This type of control can be obtained with a press fingerprint -- or as it is more commonly called today, press characterization. Characterization, when done correctly, has the potential to control variability in the current process.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Flexographie (Imprimerie)
DEF

Technique de vérification des paramètres d'une presse en vue de la reproduction précise des couleurs primaires et de la quadrichromie à l'aide de méthodes densitométriques et d'analyse d'élargissement du point.

OBS

caractérisation de presse; programme des couleurs : Termes et définition tirés du Vocabulaire de la flexographie de France Brodeur. Reproduction autorisée par l'Institut des communications graphiques du Québec.

Spanish

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Record 4 2002-10-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Inks and Colour Reproduction (Graphic Arts)
CONT

For printers, the test patern is a uniform sampling of overprinted CMYK [cyan, magenta, yellow, and black] tints that are imaged using the output device. The patches are measured, and the resulting colorimetric data is calculated into colour space information for that specific printer, as it related to the CIE XYZ or CIELAB colour space. This information becomes the central component in the printer's custom profile.

OBS

CIE refers to Commission internationale de l’éclairage (International Lighting Commission).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Encres et couleurs (Industrie graphique)
CONT

Nous voulions définir les données colorimétriques dès le pré-presse afin de ne pas perdre de temps avec les lecteurs de plaques.

Spanish

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