Timeline for How does the cyan-magenta-yellow-key (CMYK) model work with printers?
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| Feb 15, 2021 at 16:41 | comment | added | niels nielsen | @Ruslan, the first color down soaks deeper into the dry paper than does the second, and hence has less opportunity to impact the light color that is reflected back to your eye. this effect can be minimized to some extent by laying down the second color as soon as possible after the first, but the x-axis offset between adjacent color nozzle arrays prevents this method from being completely effective, especially since when printing in photo mode, the printhead's x-axis speed is reduced to accommodate the laydown rate limits of the paper in use. it is a very complicated business. | |
| Feb 15, 2021 at 11:49 | vote | accept | Zalajbeg | ||
| Feb 15, 2021 at 11:27 | comment | added | Ruslan | @Zalajbeg you can edit your question, see the Edit link below it (under the tags). | |
| Feb 15, 2021 at 10:49 | comment | added | Zalajbeg | Thanks for your explanation. Q1 is clear to me at the moment. My question has not been fully answered yet but your answer must be the accepted answer for the Q1. I don't expect the other questions to be expected. Can somebody guide me on if I can delete the remaining questions (maybe I can open another question with them?) and accept this as the answer= | |
| Feb 15, 2021 at 1:56 | comment | added | niels nielsen | yes yes, you vary the ink laydown density for C, Y, and M within the superpixel and get the color you want. it is a complicated business... | |
| Feb 14, 2021 at 23:07 | comment | added | Zalajbeg | I understand from your answer that the same superpixels are populated by different colours. For example if I want a perfect green it may populate all subpixels first with yellow and populate them again with cyan. So all subpixels absorb blue and red resulting in green. But if I want to have a mixture like 25% red and 100% green it may populate all the subpixels with yellow (so I will not get any blue) and may populate %75 of the subpixels with cyan (so I will get 25% red). Have I understood it correctly? | |
| Feb 14, 2021 at 22:45 | comment | added | Ruslan | "If you print the magenta first and the yellow second, you will get a different shade of red than you would if you laid the yellow down first" — why is this? | |
| Feb 14, 2021 at 22:41 | history | answered | niels nielsen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |