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I came across a color wheel the other day, and it is sort of helpful, but what I really want is one with the Encad 8 color go inks.
I tried to look up Artist's Color Wheel in W. Covina, CA, but I came up with nothing...
Anyone have any ideas?
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-------------------- “Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.” - Margaret Mitchell www.samazon.com Posts: 387 | From: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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i have an old color wheel i refer back to everyonce in a while. mixing color takes practice.
i worked for many years as a billboard painter(now extinct)
after a few years of actual work experience mixing paint, i began to see the color combinations and how they affected each other as far as contrast and working together.
explore the color wheel and you too will began to see the colors that make a rainbow.
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Have one myself, and see them everywhere... in the print industry. In the print world it's all CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black) that mix together to make all the gazillion colors that are printed.
Home printers are usually RGB (like your boob tube: Red, Green and Blue).
No here's a thought... to get one with the specific colors you want to spin around and mix together, do the following:
1st- Find a local Kinko's or Print Shop with a DocuColor 12 (it's a really expensive color lazer printer)
2nd- Make a .pdf file of the wheel with all your colors represented on it. BUT make sure the colors on screen are made up in CMYK mode! (The DC12 is a CMYK Printer and if you build it in RGB it will be "off" on the exact colors)
3rd- Bring that pdf file to that printer and have them print it for you on Transperancies that are thick enough that they will hold up once you make your own wheel out of them.
4th- Make your wheel
5th- Have a beer and some Cashews cause you got yourself a Encad wheel
The thinking on the fly side of the Moon
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Samazon, I've seen that one. That one, if my memory serves, doesn't work like the one I have.
Moon, I am going to do something a little different...
I have some clear material that I think I can print on, I am going to attemt to make my own, with the Encad, Autocad and Corel...
I will post how it turns out.
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Moon's suggestion is pretty interesting. I've found a link for some neat color wheels at: http://www.colorwheelco.com/
I've done quite a bit of research on digital imaging and color theory as I'm heading up our ICC profile program for our ink-jet media and I've got a ton of links I can email you and also try to answer any specific questions you may have.
BTW, we've got a fantastic new outdoor (6 months unlaminated) media that yields twice the color gamut of the GO inkset on the Encad waterproof vinyl. It's not topcoated, so it's much more surface durable and has a beautiful satin finish and is less expensive! I can send anybody who's interested a printed (on the ENCAD 736) sample and a 2yd x 36" sample roll to try.
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