"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
what are the eq systems? Judging from your post, it sounds like it is a base that you add the colors . . .I have a Matsui system like that and there is no way I could do the Pantone match with it. The colors are so concentrated that it has to be measured to the 1/100th of a gram. I have no idea how to accomplish that.
Quote from: blue moon on June 01, 2011, 03:53:06 PMwhat are the eq systems? Judging from your post, it sounds like it is a base that you add the colors . . .I have a Matsui system like that and there is no way I could do the Pantone match with it. The colors are so concentrated that it has to be measured to the 1/100th of a gram. I have no idea how to accomplish that. Couldn't you accurately measure some pigment into, say, ten times the base, and then use that as a more easily weigh-able mixer?
I like the fact that we have our standard red out there and I have it in an opaque version then a based down version sitting right next to it. I worry about the ink's opacity within these different mixing systems and wonder how they compare to what we are used to printing with. With all our more popular colors we have 2 different versions, opaque or the lesser opaque version for use on lighter colored garments. I guess I want control over the opacity of the inks, not just the color. How much control over opacity will I have with a custom mixed pantone color with each of these 2 systems? I think I know the answer to this but I am still very much a newb to this subject.