Exploriso:
Low-tech
Fine Art

• Prefix
  • Prefaces
  • Introduction
• History
  • The 19th century
  • The Rise Of The Mimeograph
  • The Name Mimeograph
  • Further developements
  • The 20th century
  • The xerographic process
  • Flatbed duplicators
  • The story of Noboru Hayama
  • Hayama’s first own invention
  • Innovation through automation
  • PrintGocco, the top seller
  • Worldwide successes
• Colour
  • General information
  • Amicability
  • Colour palette
  • Separations
    • Ad hoc separation of colour channels
    • Convert via “Custom CMYK” and GCR
    • Tonal separation by setting a threshold value
    • Duotone, tritone or quadtone separations
    • Using MultiColour Profiles for the Risograph
    • Saving Images that use a MultiColour-Profile
  • Software for creating colour profiles
  • Creating colour profiles for the risograph
    • ICC profiles
    • The L*a*b colour space
    • The CIE Yxy colour model
    • The CIE L*a*b colour model
    • Color determination through colour measurement patches
    • Colour process accuracy
    • Loading the primary color fields
    • Primary colors of the color measurement fields
    • Creating a test chart
    • Importing the color measurement information
    • Printing the color measurement chart
    • Linking color reference and measurement result
    • Multichannel profiling the test result
    • Saving the ICC profile
    • Daily work with the color profiles
  • Replacing the colour drum
  • Exchanging the ink cartridge
  • Reprogramming a colour drum
  • Deep cleaning a colour drum
  • The “right” ink coverage
• Paper
  • Surface quality
  • Roughness
  • Pretreated papers
  • Optimal ink coverage
  • Running direction
  • Grammages
  • Common paper formats
  • Special paper formats
  • Print oversized papers (A3 +)
  • Coloured substrates
• File Handling
  • Separation Preview
  • Colour space
  • File naming
  • (Flat) files without layers
  • Images
  • Fonts
  • Simulating colours
  • Ink coverage when colouring larger areas
  • Format
  • Transparancies
  • Publish PDFs
    • Write a PostScript print file and print to Adobe Distiller [File > Print / File > Print Booklet]
    • Export PDF [File > Export]
• Printing
  • The print method
  • Copy mode
  • Planning print and finishing
  • Print menu
  • Creating templates on the computer
  • Screen angles
  • Screen width
  • Printing grained colour separations
  • Colour order
  • Control panel on the risograph
  • The paper feed of the risograph
  • Replacing the master roll
  • The paper feed adjustment wheel
  • Inaccuracies
  • Interval printing
  • Add a colour assignment to the printer driver
• Processing
  • Precautions
  • Drying times
  • Measure to support the drying process
  • Pressing and cutting printed sheets
  • Storing printed products
• Downloads
  • Adobe Colour Swatches for InDesign and Illustrator
  • Device-Independent PostScript Printer Description
  • Recolouring Charts
• Imprint
  • About the author