When is Too Much Color Too Much?Written by Paul Hood
At onset of creating a digital document for printing, you must have decided if you are going to use two or more colors for your type. It is important that you must have familiarized yourself with basics of color and color combinations and its effect on appearance of your text. Knowing beforehand pertinent knowledge can save you a great deal of energy. Not to mention headaches.Lifetips states that “When designing a digital document for printing, try not to use a build of more than two colors for your type. When a color is needed which uses more than 2 colors, this may cause colored drop shadows, due to registration. While in design stage, try to pick a PMS which is built using only one or two colors.” The importance of having a sound plan as to what design you will follow throughout project cannot be stressed enough and here Lifetips once again hits home. As it is, printing particularly small types in more than one color can be very difficult. Doing this will result in fuzzy or hazy images which is likely not what you had in mind. The best thing to do, as Lifetips says, is to make sure that you have made a plan and a good design for your print type.
| | Book Printing Through the MillenniumWritten by Paul Hood
Book printing might sound like a boring niche that doesn’t much over each turning year. That’s why you might find it surprising that like letters and alphabet, book printing tells a far more astonishing story than what we usually know of. There had been many developments that had great effect on book printing. The technology that spawned making of records and preserving them was started by Sumerians in form of cuneiforms. Cuneiforms are an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia. Stone tablets would later give way to papers which would then be main medium of books as we know it today. Large volumes of books found a home in Alexandria Library in Egypt during reign of King Ptolemy I Soter. Ptolemy instructed his scouts to collect every possible book there is in civilized world and bring them to library for safekeeping. Original works were duplicated and was promptly returned to its rightful owner. Those returned were duplicates of course. It would have been interesting to know how owners reacted upon finding out that they were given mere copies of their books. Then again, we’ll never know. One thing’s for sure, arguing with a king is not good for your health.
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