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HLC Colour Atlas XL - freieFarbe proof.de - title white 2018 v1

free colour: CIELAB HLC Colour Atlas XL published and can be ordered at proof.de

May 8, 2020January 17, 2019 by Matthias Betz

After almost a year of work the time has finally come. The CIELAB HLC Colour Atlas XL saw the light of day. The new HLC Colour Atlas XL is the basis for all stages of professional colour communication – from design to the finished product. The standard version contains 2040, the new XL version even 13283 mathematically-systematically graded CIELAB colour tones on 74 pages. You can order the CIELAB HLC colour atlas here in our shop The free file package contains the layer PDF version with several gamuts for the analysis …

Proofs for recycled paper. Is that possible?

January 17, 2019January 16, 2019 by Matthias Betz

We produce proofs for classic white uncoated papers on a daily basis, but the question often arises as to which proof standard could be used for printing on recycled paper. In general, the paper white in a proof is precisely defined in the proof standard and is also measured in every test report. For PSOUncoated it is 95.00 / 0.00 / -2.00 in CIELAB and for PSOUncoatedV3 it is 93.50 / 2.50 / -10.00, i.e. slightly darker (93.50 instead of 95.00 for brightness L) and significantly bluer (-10.00 instead of …

DIN SPEC 16699 - Open colour communication - Final meeting - Berlin

DIN SPEC 16699 “Open colour communication” published

May 8, 2019January 7, 2019 by Matthias Betz

A few days ago, our DIN SPEC 16699 “Open Colour Communication” was published and is now available for free download from DIN’s Beuth-Verlag. Matthias Betz from Proof GmbH, Holger Everding from DTP Studio Oldenburg, Jan-Peter Homann from Homann Colormanagement in Berlin and Eric. A Soder from Pixsource in Switzerland, all members of the association freieFarbe e.V., have shown in the bilingual DIN specification a way to create high-precision color samples on the basis of open source, license-free standards and have shown ways for cross-media color communication. The 44-page PDF is …