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N3-42: COLOR MIXING IN PRINTER - CHART

PURPOSE: Show how modern printer achieves its range of colors.

DESCRIPTION: This is a large chart (over one meter square) which shows all of the 256 colors produced by a modern color printer and specifies the admixtures of the primary colors used for each. It includes 8 scales of gray, 8 primary positive and negative colors (black, white, red, green, blue, yellow, cyan, magenta) and a 10 x 24 grid of colors with identifying admixtures.

This particular chart is an advertising gimmick for the HP Designjet 650C Plotter, and a very good one, I must say.

SUGGESTIONS: Can be shown to a class, then inspected individually to understand the details.

REFERENCES: (PIRA unknown.)

EQUIPMENT: Printer color chart framed with glass front.

SETUP TIME: None.


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