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How can I tell the value, if any, of a lithograph.?

It is signed by Fabri..23/250. It has a cert of authenticity on back titled Mother and Babe. It has an embossed seal from Art/Show Galleries, Ltd. dated 10/10/1972. Art/Show Galleries is out of business. Please help!

The best way to find out is to take it to a gallery that handles prints and ask them to appraise it.

In this article we try to cut through some red ribbons and try to give you a better understanding of the jargon and the pitfalls, ensuring that their expectations are more closely match the final product will receive. The following points should be helpful,

If you want a close color match between the colors of the designs you see on the computer monitor and printed cards to talk to the printer. Depending on the type of monitor you use and the colors in question could be a big difference between how you see the color on your monitor (RGB MODE) and how the printed color (CMYK MODE) is when printing from the printer or when printing using home office printer. Also the type of paper used affects printed colors. If you want very close games in the best way to proceed is to send a hard copy card in the same colors for the printer. The printer can try to find the closest corresponding CMYK color. If the printer can not find a color code CMYK appropriate, can recommend the use of another set of print called Pantone colors (spot) colors. From Pantone color is usually more expensive than CMYK color printing, but the accuracy to match the color is also better.

The most common misunderstanding and entrapment between a client and a company offering services in print, is when a customer requires your credit card details or logo to have beautiful bright colors you see on your monitor, but the same colors as seem much more muted in the cards printed

they receive.

Why is this happening? It's simply the physics of the situation follows,

The screen colors (RGB: Red-Green-Blue), the three basic elements of color, forming a pixel-that each CRT monitor and color television technology is used to compose all the colors that is capable of displaying. Basically, the brightness of each color element is set to a value between 0 (very dark to black) to 255 (as bright as white), and the additive mixture of the three values of the colors together has the effect of producing a different color, with values which move in the RGB color space. Now, how correctly and according to its value is the color appears on your screen, you have to do primarily with the quality of the Monitor-Plus others details such as the monitor profile, color, etc.

The color scheme used for the printing (CMYK: Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black) are the basic colors that combine to obtain the equivalent of RGB colors: cyan magenta + yellow = red, magenta and cyan = blue + + yellow = green.

However, these colors will not be as bright as the RGB colors that can be displayed on the screen. The reason is that CMYK works through light absorption: the color that you see on paper is the result the visible spectrum of light that is left is not absorbed and reflected back to her eyes. By contrast, the RGB colors through monitors are exposed to light, with the result that the colors appear more vibrant. And that is the key reason that the colors you see on the screen and when printing a different and sometimes so substantial.

Now, as mentioned above, to overcome these problems of physics, if you are concerned about color reproduction close then talk to your printer.

Dpi (dots per inch) or resolution refers to the sharpness of its design. No matter how good the printer, if the card design is not sharp enough after the printed card does not appear sharp and clear. Ideally, the best result, you are looking through a pattern of at least 300dpi when it created the impression in real size. For example, a 300dpi artwork that needs 200% scale in full size print is 300dpi, but it is 150dpi.

Thickness (GSM) of the card refers to its weight. Ideally you would have professional business cards looking for the best weight of paper to use is between 330 and 360gsm. Again, you can use matte or glossy finish paper and other uses in the business card printer. Again different role does appear that the final print different. Ask your printer for more tips.

Using lithographic printing or digital printing. The words lithographic or digital are simply references to the quality of printing machines and printing processes used to print the cards. Lithographic printing is a method oldest printing and gives a very clear and crisp. Digital printing is a newer method and depending on the quality of digital printers used, results may vary. The best digital printers produce printed as a quality clear and sharp as the best lithographic printers, and better results that some old lithographic printer.

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