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sluitende

English translation: aligned (colours)

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Dutch term or phrase:sluitend(e kleuren)
English translation:aligned (colours)
Entered by: AllisonK (X)

07:42 Aug 11, 2003
Dutch to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Printing & Publishing / printing industry
Dutch term or phrase: sluitende
from the same sentence as the last question I posted...:Loupe-zuivere, messcherp gestoken letters, feilloos ***sluitende*** kleuren en precisie-kalibratie zijn maatgevend voor een etiket dat het predikaat allerhoogste kwaliteit mag dragen.
I don't know if they mean 'balanced' here or that there's a clear division between the colours used......the heat is baking my brain!
TIA.
AllisonK (X)
Netherlands
Local time: 15:05
aligned
Explanation:
would be my suggestion.
Each colour in a printing process is on a different layer of film, which must be aligned properly with reference marks, so that they overlap evers so slightly and that no white line appears between the colours, when they have been printed.

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Note added at 2003-08-12 08:37:43 (GMT)
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Why would the source text use \"feilloos\" for matching of colours. In printing practice a \"precise alignment\" can never be achieved, because the paper stretches with humidity and temperature. So all printing of colours is done with overlays, where the dots of colout merge (so that no line effect is created - unless required) and no white lines can ever appear between the colours.
20 years in publishing and printing.

Furthermore, coulours always merge (unless pure colours are used - i.e. no dots of colour). All colours other than 100% are composed from the basic printing colours.

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Note added at 2003-08-12 08:40:25 (GMT)
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And \"calibratie\" (registration) also indicates that this is what its all about, namely the alignment, not a matching. Matching would be bbetween different colour surfaces.
Selected response from:

Alexander Schleber (X)
Belgium
Local time: 15:05
Grading comment
Thanks Alexander, sorry for the delay. After a mini-computer crash (beware of the Microsoft patches everyone!) and some consultation with the client, this appears to be the best answer.
Thanks all!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +2(precisely) matched (colours)
Marijke Singer
4 +1sharply defined
Dave Greatrix
4 +1aligned
Alexander Schleber (X)
4 +1registering
vixen


  

Answers


4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
sharply defined


Explanation:
This means that the colours do not merge. So maybe this would do.

Prisms
Prisms shows white light (treated for the sake of simplicity as a mixture of
seven sharply-defined colours) refracted by a ring of rotating prisms. ...
www.netspace.net.au/~gregegan/APPLETS/14/14.html - 5k - Cached - Similar pages

The Day After Christmas
... Prisms show white light (treated for the sake of simplicity as a mixture of
seven sharply-defined colours) refracted by a ring of rotating prisms. ...
www.crystalinks.com/dayafterxmas.html - 27k - Cached - Similar pages

artnet.com: Resource Library: Ràfols-Casamada, Albert
... in 1957, initially concentrating exclusively on the interaction of the background
with geometrically arranged shapes in sharply defined colours and faintly ...
www.artnet.com/library/07/0705/T070570.asp


Dave Greatrix
United Kingdom
Local time: 14:05
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Alexander Schleber (X): "sluitend" in the sense of closing, touching.
6 mins
  -> Sharply defined would mean perfectly aligned
agree  Kate Hudson (X): so to disagree here with you Alexander but I think David has the right idea, meaning there is no runover in the colour boundaries i.e. leakage of colour
31 mins
agree  moya
1 hr
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
aligned


Explanation:
would be my suggestion.
Each colour in a printing process is on a different layer of film, which must be aligned properly with reference marks, so that they overlap evers so slightly and that no white line appears between the colours, when they have been printed.

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 2003-08-12 08:37:43 (GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Why would the source text use \"feilloos\" for matching of colours. In printing practice a \"precise alignment\" can never be achieved, because the paper stretches with humidity and temperature. So all printing of colours is done with overlays, where the dots of colout merge (so that no line effect is created - unless required) and no white lines can ever appear between the colours.
20 years in publishing and printing.

Furthermore, coulours always merge (unless pure colours are used - i.e. no dots of colour). All colours other than 100% are composed from the basic printing colours.

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 2003-08-12 08:40:25 (GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

And \"calibratie\" (registration) also indicates that this is what its all about, namely the alignment, not a matching. Matching would be bbetween different colour surfaces.

Alexander Schleber (X)
Belgium
Local time: 15:05
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thanks Alexander, sorry for the delay. After a mini-computer crash (beware of the Microsoft patches everyone!) and some consultation with the client, this appears to be the best answer.
Thanks all!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  vixen: See my comments below
1 day 25 mins
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28 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
(precisely) matched (colours)


Explanation:
Just to make you even more unsure!

They could just mean that the colours are accurately matched!

See website: http://www.morphycontainers.com/faq.html
"6. How much more expensive are printed cartons?
The cost depends on the amount of printing and the intricacy of the printing. One colour business logos on 2 sides of the carton would cost 2%-3% more; two colour logos with special matched colours and tight registration would cost 5%-10% more and three and four colours would sell for 15%-50% more depending on the amount of detail. "


Marijke Singer
Spain
Local time: 15:05
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  jarry (X): Yes, this would also be my interpretation of "sluitend" in this context
1 hr
  -> Thank you!
agree  Meturgan: Seems to me too
4 hrs
  -> Thank you!
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1 day 52 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
registering


Explanation:
While looking for a reference to back up Alexander's suggestion, I hit upon the following definitions:

Register: fitting of two or more printing images in exact alignment with each other.

Register Marks: cross-hair lines or marks on film, plates, and paper that guide the pressmen in registering colours. Not to be confused with crop marks.
http://www.thequickprinter.com/glossary.html

So, although alignment appears to be a correct description of the process, the correct printer's term seems to be 'registering'.

"Dit kleurenstel sluit niet: de films zijn niet exact even groot gemaakt. Het effect is hetzelfde als bij een stel dat niet sluitend is gedrukt, maar in dit geval moet het stel worden overgemaakt"

Comment next to an illustration in 'Drukwerkproduktie en -begeleiding', published by Gaade, 1987.

vixen
Greece
Local time: 16:05
Works in field
Native speaker of: Dutch
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Alexander Schleber (X): Thanks for the confirming evidence.
2 days 12 hrs
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