Actually quite fun and eye opening. When I get a minute I hope to compile a massive collection of photos and examples and analyse them to try and workout the print process as my knowledge in print production increase s.
We also had different examples of print examples we brought in, from offset litho to possible pad prints.
We looked real close at prints with the magnifying class tool and it was really cool to see what prints were made of and how half tones and monotone prints look like up close. For example what is actually a red piece of paper from far away is actually possibly a layer of magenta and yellow and with a magnifying glass you can see te yellow and magenta creep through the edges.
Hopefully the photos through the magnifying glass capture this.
Some of the items I brought in, hopefully showing a variety of stocks and print techniques to achieve the desired effect.
You can just about see but the photo is literally made up dots. C M Y K halftone separations running at different grids and angles to each other in order to fool the eyes and overlap to create a photo from a distance.
Mr Fower taking a photo.
You can just about see the dot patterns of what otherwise seems a one colour print
At first looking at this I would have thought it was one colour along with tintss. Probably black. One plate. either Process or Spot colour.
Turns out it's a mix of CMY. I can't work out why? Just seems inefficient and expensive.
Foiling?
Looks red, I would have thought it was a 1 colour spot print, namely red but it's a 2 colour litho. Magenta and Yellow, you can just about see the M+Y seep through on the edges of the colour coverage, where the white text comes in, which is obviously no ink at all, allowing the stock to show through.
People had to get up nice and close as you can see.
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