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Should you digitise slides and negatives?
Do you have old film floating around? If you're not of the digital native generation, we're willing to bet you do - and you don't know what to do with them. It's fairly likely that somewhere in your family's stuff there are those packs of prints you used to get from...
Grappling with Colour Gamut
Colour gamut is the complete range or scope of colour a device, such as a monitor or printer, can reproduce. The wider your colour gamut is, the more saturated your colours will be. When your colour gamut is reduced, so is the saturation in your colours - a phenomenon...
Optical Brighteners in Fine Art Prints: Good or Bad?
What are optical brighteners? Optical brighteners, or optical brightening agents (OBAs), are chemicals that are added into certain fine art papers in order to help them appear whiter.How do OBAs work? The chemicals added to the paper take invisible ultraviolet light...
Colour Management and the Importance of Quality Paper
Here at Chromocat Press, we use a fully colour-managed process to ensure the most accurate colour reproduction for your digital prints. Our ICC profiles characterize the colour gamut for the printer, ink and paper.A profile is generated by printing a series of colour...