I hate light boxes

Phil1923
over 8 years ago

Hi Everybody,

I HATE LIGHT BOXES.

They give me nightmares.

Many years ago, I worked in an offset printing shop.
Every now and then, a customer would return with his light box and a slide.

Then he would start screaming that our print did not match the slide on the light box.
The owner assigned me to explain color theory to him. 

That's how I got started on this theory stuff.  It's all very practical.

Phil

  • over 8 years ago
    Hi Phil

    We still do explain that colour slides have a density range much higher than ink on paper so the contrast will be much lower in print.

    We still have a couple of samples to show people.

    At one time MAcbeth made a slide projector that enlarged up to 5 x I think it was and projected the image onto a screen with colour balanced lighting around it. The saturation looked like a printed sheet it was a great help Darn thin cost almost 1500. back in the early nineties.

    Ross Blair

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