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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">The reason of my
question is that Wikipedia
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tints_and_shades"><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tints_and_shades></a> tells about
melting the color with white (or the complementary) while Pantone
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speaks (in french) about "fonds tramés". So obviously, Pantone's (and
Louis') answer is for printing while Wikipedia's is for painting.<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">Next question: should
tints come into color swatches? How to implement that in the create (or
SVG) model?</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">(I think the question
of opaque spot inks on coloured papers needs to be discussed in its own
thread)<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">Louis Desjardins a
écrit :</p>
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href="mailto:olivier.berten@gmail.com">olivier.berten@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">This is a question
for
the printing professionals in the list.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">What is a tint of
ABC
(technically speaking)? </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">- ink ABC printed
at x%</p>
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Right. What happens when you ask the application to produce such a tint
is it sends to the imagesetter or platesetter the instruction to
produce a screen at the given percentage. On press, this will result in
printed dots, large or small, to produce a darker or a lighter tint.
The ink itself is alsways printed at 100% on each dot and the mix
between the unprinted portion and the printed portion on the paper
fools the human
eyes and makes it believe there is a tint of that ink.<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">- x% ink ABC melt
with
(100-x)% of white ink<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">- x% ink ABC melt
with
(100-x)% of transparent varnish<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">- ???</p>
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Is it used in printing or only in paint?</div>
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If one is going to use white ink into an ink mix, this applies to spot
colors such as Pantone. It's basically to obtain a specific color for a
specific plate. <br>
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