CMYK 4 Color Offset Printing

Animation of a 4-color printing process. Movie made with Cinema4D. Settings: 720x1280, FPS 25, Code H264. This is a quality test.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Animation
• +Cinema4D
• +color
• print

[ssaammuutt]

Thanks for the compliments and critics of my movie. It displays not excactly the standard offset printing workflow. However the basic of 4 color printing process. The sequence of the printing colors can be altered by different printing technics.

My main goal was to visualize color printing with a 3D animation.

[SlashZooka]

Thats nothing i can work with paint :D xD

[pjgumby]

If you are printing wet on wet colors together two at a time, the first pass ought to be the magenta on the parent with the yellow on the T head. Then the black on the parent with the cyan on the T head. Like with a painting, you have to do your undercoat first. Also don't use process yellow, way too light you'll end up using way too much magenta to make the print pop. Use pantone yellow instead .

[pjgumby]

@TheBCChurchill Yes, that's the perks of being a Printer!

[pjgumby]

When I was printing four color process it was magenta and yellow, then black and process blue. Never failed me, thought it was the best thing to do.

[akjfksgrrl]

ohhhhh ahora lo entiendo todo xD

[einarknutsen]

WOW only thing to work on thats not to important is the animation when the ink tubes where to land on the press thing :P VERY nice work

[CreatingWithaSmile]

very nice :)

[Mylitla]

@markhermans77 Either CMYK or KCMY laydown sequences are allowed under SNAP standards, but CMYK is more common as it provides the widest possible gamut.

[markhermans77]

first black, then cyaan, then magenta and then yellow