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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...
Colour Management and the Importance of Quality Paper
Here at Cottontail 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...
Heidelberg Windmill Platen Press
Meet Wynston, our 1953 Original Heidelberg Windmill platen press. Don't let his age fool you. Even though he would be considered an antique today, Wynston continues to prove his worth day in and day out. The Original Heidelberg press, also known as "The Prince of...
Blind Debossing
To create a blind impression (or debossing) means to print without using ink. This is a subtle way to add beautiful texture without colour. Generally, we would add colour to any text or small, detailed designs but since this was our first run with Wynston we were not...