Originally posted by Bruce Clark I would be interesting to see how it prints.
In my experience with printing it would not print very well. There would be a massive amount of ink overload. While an image like this one can still look acceptable on screen it won't look good when printed. The reason ?
A screen displays
Additive colour which is Red, Green and Blue (RGB) and only works with devices that radiate or emit light. Such as your screen.
Printing however uses
Subtractive colour where inks such as Cyan, Magenta and Yellow are used. Subtractive colour works on the basis of reflected light. (Mixing of the different pigments of ink
subtract (absorb) different wavelengths of light.)
Overlaying these three inks in equal amounts will result in black being reflected, however this will not result in a really deep satisfying black, it most likely will result in a muddy brownish colour and 100% of the three inks in one spot would be a lot of ink and cause problems. For this reason C M Y ink is reduced (or removed) and replaced with black ink. (again - CMYK) This then is the the method used in "Offset" printing (Which produced a very limited colour gamut)
Inkjet printers (or stochastic printers) are working on the same subtractive colour principal as above and convert the screen's RGB to be represented in CMYK colour inks which are then sprayed on to the medium.
In this case here there would be just too much ink of everything and the image would look dull, flat and dark with very little detail. Of course it would also depend greatly on the medium it is printed on but generally speaking it would be a challenge to come up with something appealing.
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