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What is Color Bleeding?
Color bleeding, as its name connotes, is a negative thing. When colors “bleed” in painting and dyeing, it often means that a single color is running down the paper or the fabric. Color bleeding in printing is a little different. In printing and graphic arts, colors are formed b dots. When two adjacent dots of different color mix before they dry, it is called color bleeding.
In order for a print to dry, the ink must absorb into the substrate. When the ink is wet, it is susceptible to bleeding. Unless it is done for effect, color bleeding will often reduce the quality of the print because it will produce unattractive work.
Whether of not your print experiences color bleeding is based on a number of factors. The type of paper you use can have a large effect on preventing your print from bleeding. Proper full color fine are printing paper is usually bright. Custom RGB printing, set on bright paper, shows strong contrast and accuracy of colors.
Additionally, suitable paper holds as much ink as possible near the surface of the giclee printing page. Our eyes only perceive the color near the surface. Full color fine are printing paper, which allows color to seep through the back of the sheet, will prevent visibility of dyes on the front side of the page. the more ink held at the surface of the paper, the stronger the paper’s print density. This is usually the case in thicker paper such as ink jet poster printing boards. The paper’s level of absorption is referred to as its level of capillary action or capillarity. This term is used to describe a substance’s ability to draw another substance into it. In this case, paper drawing in ink.
Another sign of strong custom RGB printing paper is that it is water-resistant. As ink is a water based solution, it has a tendency to move around the page if the page gets wet. Water-resistance will prevent the liquid from smudging or washing out images.
Final factors affecting the chances of color bleeding, include ink type and the properties of ink type, such as speed of ink drying, and printing technology, such as nozzle design and spacing with ink jet printers.
Filed under: Uncategorized, Education on January 23rd, 2008