Redefining Limits
with Advanced Multicolor Technology
Offset printing has significant limitations in reproducing the full range of colors seen by the human eye and created by photography or artistic techniques, thus affecting the quality of printed books.
To address this issue, Trifolio launched the AreaW4 project in 2009. This initiative aims to surpass the standard four-color printing process by extending research and production times, and by integrating advanced technologies with our expertise to achieve superior quality.
The AreaW4 method, resulting in Wide CMYK Performance, enhances four-color printing and allows for custom colors beyond the traditional process. Unlike the market trend towards cost-cutting and automation, AreaW4 prioritizes print quality, offering tailored solutions for customer projects.
An offset printing process that exceeds ISO standards.
It operates as a workshop for innovative ideas utilizing creative methods for converting and processing RGB images, as well as employing different pigments.
Trifolio Lab’s advanced multicolor technology makes it possible to achieve outstanding color reproductions in print that are tailored to the customer’s taste and wishes.
It overcomes the qualitative and color limitations previously achieved with the usual standard reproduction techniques.
Trifolio Lab allows clients to collaborate with the Trifolio team to create custom colors tailored to their specific needs.
By moving beyond the traditional four-color process, this system preserves the artist’s original colors and achieves shades that are impossible to replicate within ISO standards.
Developed by Trifolio, it continuously evolves, blending expert intuition with our technological advancements to produce high-quality books.
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WHY
An in-depth exploration of colour theory, printing techniques and technologies
colour theory
Light and temperature
Color theory is a branch of optics that studies the classification of colors and their perception by the human eye.
Light is electromagnetic radiation emitted by a light source with a wavelength of between 380 and 780 nanometers; it occupies the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum between the infrared and the ultraviolet.
The light that we perceive as white is in reality a blend of different wavelengths in this interval of visible light, from violet to red. Proof of this is provided by the fact that when light passes through a transparent prism, it is refracted into a spectrum of color; we also see this when light passes through drops of water suspended in the atmosphere, where it is refracted into a rainbow. In order to understand the printing process, there are two important characteristics of light to bear in mind.
Colour temperature
The color temperature of a light source is the numerical measure of its chromatic appearance, or hue. It is based on the principle that any object, if heated to a sufficiently high temperature, gives off light. The color of that light varies in a predictable manner with the increase in temperature: the object passes gradually from red to orange to yellow and then white and finally to bluish white.
Thus the color temperature is the temperature, expressed in degrees kelvin (K), at which the color of the object exactly matches that of the light source.
