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by mrtomservo
446 days ago
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I agree -- color bars pre-printed on tractor-feed paper would have used a Pantone ink, maybe a tint of 290 for blue, or 358 for green. Mills wouldn't have likely used a C+M+Y build: Why pay for three inks (and the potential for misregistration) when you can just use one? There might have even been a special machine to print the lines at regular intervals, and not run through a traditional offset printing press. Pantone inks in specific, and printed colors in general, don't convert precisely to RGB. Ambient light reflects off paper to your eyeballs; a screen beams light into your eyeballs. It's a nice little nostalgic thought exercise, though. |
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The pictures on the Wikipedia article show several shades of green: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_stationery