after
before
Obviously the original cardboard cartons
that these 8mm digests came packaged in have seen a little wear
over the last thirty-some years and are seldom found in
pristine condition and require “restoration” before
their covers can be reprinted. We have chosen to remove various
manufacturers stickers and labels, as their placement was
largely arbitrary and not part of the original designs. Of
course, there is no shortage of dirt, faded color, and
scratches which must also be dealt with prior to reprinting.
Even if found in mint condition, the
reprinting of printed material requires several adjustments
before desirable new editions can be created from them.
with descreening corrections
without descreening corrections
Moire patterns
The color range of all commercially
printed imagery results from a combination of 4 colors (Cyan,
Magenta, Yellow, & Black) printed in overlapping dot
patterns. When reprinting a previously printed image you break
the original dot pattern into a second, and the two conflicting
patterns usually result in annoying zig-zag patterns across the
image. The use of various filters can eliminate all or most of
these patterns, but it also softens the image and dulls the
color, which then requires further adjustments. Most of these
boxes were originally printed on the cheap at a very low dots
per inch, and we had them printed at a higher resolution that
also helps to eliminate Moire Patterns.
original cropping
restored with new bleed
final trim size
Bleeds
The original cover of these boxes were
printed “full-bleed,” which is to say that the
image runs right up to the edge of the cover and is not framed
by any blank or white space. To achieve this, printers require
the cover image extend beyond the area where the cards are to
be cut by 1/8 inch in all directions. To avoid any cropping of
the original image we had to re-create an 1/8 inch extension of
the image on all sides by “cloning” elements from
the originals. As it turns out, our printer was very precise in
cutting the cards and these “faked” extensions are
cut away leaving the complete image as was originally cropped
on the box covers.
