Support Mounts for Revolutionary, New Six-Color Printing Standard.BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 27, 1996--Announcements made at the Seybold Boston Publishing Conference today demonstrate rapidly growing industry support for a new printing technology which significantly improves the realism and vividness of color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color production printing. The ultra high fidelity high fidelity n. The electronic reproduction of sound, especially from broadcast or recorded sources, with minimal distortion. high PANTONE Hexachrome printing process dramatically increases the range of colors that can be printed using conventional printing presses. The result is improved tonal reproduction, richer colors, more realistic flesh tones and sharper shadows and highlights than possible with conventional processes. Today's announcement of support from industry leader Quark, Inc., for its QuarkXPress, QuarkXPress Passport, QuarkCopyDesk, QuarkCopyDesk Special Edition and future Quark products will bring broader access of this new printing process to graphic designers, prepress and printing professionals. Pantone also announced the first showing of PANTONE HexWrench, a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop See Photoshop. which uses AeQ (Appearance Equivalency technology from Light Source Computer Images, Inc.), allowing users of this popular software to produce six-color separations for the Hexachrome printing process. Support for Hexachrome has grown rapidly since it was first unveiled in May 1995. Adobe Systems has incorporated Hexachrome support into its PageMaker 6.0 page composition software. VISU VISU Vienna International Summer University (University of Vienna, Austria) Technologies will incorporate Hexachrome into ICISS ICISS International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) ICISS Impact Collision Ion Scattering Spectroscopy professional color separation software. Agfa Corporation offers pre-press proofing and printing separation software for Hexachrome. Kodak Corporation supports Hexachrome within the Kodak Color Management System Software that translates the colors of an original image into the truest representation obtainable on the output device. Color management works from a profile of the output device, typically a digital printer or offset press, and works backward to the source of the material such as a . Dupont offers a proofing system for Hexachrome, and Pantone, Inc. provides a color selector for the standard. Printing inks in Hexachrome Colors are currently available from Pantone's worldwide network of licensed printing ink manufacturers. Hexachrome is a fully integrated six-color process which includes an ink set, design capabilities, separations, proofing and the PANTONE Hexachrome Color Selector. The proprietary ink set developed by Pantone consists of enhanced versions of the subtractive sub·trac·tive adj. 1. Producing or involving subtraction. 2. Of or being a color produced by light passing through or reflecting off a colorant, such as a filter or pigment, that absorbs certain wavelengths and transmits or primaries yellow, magenta and cyan along with black, vivid orange and intensified green. In a single pass on a six-color press, Hexachrome is capable of simulating over 90% of the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM See PMS. Colors, more than twice the number that can be obtained using conventional four-color process printing. Pantone, Inc., the leading source of products for the accurate communication of color, is the developer of the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM, the PANTONE Process Color System and the new PANTONE Hexachrome six-color ultra high fidelity process system. CONTACT: Pantone, Inc. Ellen Pinto, 201/935-5500 ellen_pinto@pantone.com or A&R Partners Lisa Auslen, 415/363-0982 x20 lisa_auslen@arpartners.com |
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