Maxwell's Printing Demons

[davemarc]

At 06:43 AM 5/2/96 -0400, Ted wrote:
>
>Color theory is quite arcane in many ways. I've been debating for 
>years whether to purchase texts on this for my work as a cartographer
>and graphics designer. It is one of those areas of knowledge where
>art, science, humanities & technology merge and and produce something
>that is ambiguously tangible. For example, in my work with old time
>4-color (pre-Postscript?!) printing, I've met a number of older
>pressmen who were seriously "afflicted" with red/green color blindness
>and were able to produce excellently proofed work. They would get
>their results by using the poundage of the inks used. Believe it or
>not.
>
>From my printing experience I can believe the notion that numerous press
people are color blind (not to mention registration-challenged).  It is
indeed hard to believe that they produced excellent results without close
supervision.

davemarc