Is there still value in the electronic color separation machine?
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Nowadays, many industry friends have little awareness of the "separation" industry. It seems that the "separation" profession has been overwhelmed by the wave of DTP and has been swallowed up by the beast of digital photography! This has led most people to think that there is no need for "separation". Why do they feel this way? Because the definition of "separation" in the past is to put an original such as a slide or a picture onto the glass roller of the electronic color separation machine, and carefully set it by the color separation master, and use the photomultiplier tube (PMT) of the roller scanner to have a high resolution. A little bit of information that converts light into electricity is passed to the computer for calculation, and then the print dot is printed. Since digital photography does not have a film, why do you need an electronic color separation machine? With PhotoShop software, anyone can easily convert RGB files into CMYK output. So why do you need color separation technology? The color separation machine has been discontinued, and the color separation plate industry is facing elimination. The above questions have attracted the attention of the Hong Kong Graphic Arts Society. Therefore, the author decided to discuss these situations and study the relationship between the quality of printed images and color separation.
I like the bookstore, and I went to the "Page One PAGEONE" bookstore in another city of Kowloon one day to see a landscape photo album called "HONG KONG & MACAU Through the Panoramic Eye III". The picture of the one-page long page, the visual effect is shocking, the content is rich, the color is saturated, the level is meticulous, and then it is a collection of Japanese photographers named Fumio Okada.
Two days later, Tan Li, the chairman of the Graphic Arts Society, called and said: "An interview will be held next Monday. It is like the first color separation company (DAI ICHI). I hope to see the development of Hong Kong color separation technology from their development. "
The electronic color separation machine appeared in Hong Kong in the 1970s, which significantly improved the color performance and clarity of printed images, but the entire color separation plate-making technology was still stuck in the stage brought by Shanghai in the 1950s and 1960s, and the points introduced by Japan. Color plate technology can be said to start with the first color separation company.
The protagonist of this visit was originally the photographer mentioned above. He was the president of the First Separation Group, Mr. Fumio Okada. He visited Japan from Hong Kong in 1969 and discovered the color separation of Hong Kong at that time. The industry has not yet formed, so it is only left to develop in Hong Kong. He has been working in photography and traditional color separation in Japan and has 15 years of experience. At that time, the first color separation company he worked for had a certain scale in Japan, and he was a small number of English-speaking Japanese in the company, so he was sent to Hong Kong for inspection because they wanted to borrow Hong Kong experience as a march into New York. Stepping stone.
In the 1960s, two famous Japanese printing companies, "Daily Printing" and "Toppan Printing", had entered Hong Kong. At that time, the advertising industry could not find a good color separation service, which was the ideal entry point for the first color separation. . At that time, Mr. Okada recruited sales staff from the Government Printing Office and the ink company as the opening team, mainly because they all knew English and were familiar with the printing industry. Based on the backbone members of this group, a large number of new blood began to be recruited, and up to 600 people applied for the round during the peak period. After a year and a half of development, they have increased to 60 people, with the advanced PDI electronic color separation machine at that time, the original color separation is exposed to the continuous tone of the film, and then through the Dainippon Screen horizontal photography The photocopying machine performs the online color-changing screen and uses the four large Japanese screen-printing machines to wet the manuscript.
After ten years of development, it has increased to 100 in 1980, with a production capacity of 3,000 pages per day. In 1987, it invested more than HK$4.5 million to introduce the SigmaGraph System of Dainippon Screen, but a few years later, it was overshadowed by the tide of desktop publishing (DTP) in 1990. They also adapted to the current situation and adopted Apple Computer. (Macintosh) desktop system, but the price of color separation is drastically reduced by this wave.
Under the impact of price cuts, they used the experience of operating the picture supply agency to find new business directions to the European image supply agency. They have a collection of photography, photo supply, color separation and the Hong Kong printing company's network, providing a one-stop service program, printing a 300-page image catalogue for European photo agencies, up to 4,000 per photo. Zhang, and the number of prints is as high as 100,000, and the average is published 10 times a year.
Oriental Touch Ltd., one of the first color separation groups, was established in 1971 and was said to be the first photo supply company established in Hong Kong. Today, they have 1.5 million on their website. A huge picture gallery.
Today, the first color separation company has four large Japanese screen electronic color separation machines that operate day and night, and the average daily output per machine is 300 images of 80MB size. Their business source is that some image providers scan a large number of slides or negatives into digital archives for easy storage and use.
The main reason why Mr. Okada’s still using large negatives (6cmx17cm) is that digital cameras are not able to provide such high resolution, and even if they are, their investment is very expensive. Therefore, the high-resolution electronic color separation machine comes in handy, and the image scanning file of up to 1000 mb is no problem, so the electronic color separation machine is still their main production equipment.