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A Book Review by Ray Maxwell

Introduction…This is a review of a book by Rick McCleary titled “CMYK 2.0”. However, to fully appreciate the importance of this book I would like to give some history of the printing industry and background of how the printing industry has arrived at the methods described in “CMYK 2.0”.

If you have ever been involved in any aspect of reproducing a photograph on an offset press, you should read this essay and this book. This applies to photographers, designers, prepress persons and printers.

CMYK 1.0 or how it used to be…

When I started work in 1997 for a major manufacture of electronic prepress hardware and software, things were very different than they are today. I attended a national meeting of printers and prepress people. I attended a seminar on “Color Reproduction”. I stood up in the meeting and naively asked how many people attending the seminar were using color management. One person in ...

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