Laminating process for producing high fidelity color prints

Abstract

High fidelity color reproductions are produced whereby color correcting or compensating thin polymeric laminates are applied over photographs, prints and imaging devices and systems, that are initially deficient or excessive in some one or more color rendition, by methods comprising dyeing the thin polymeric laminates, applying an adhesive layer, and laminating onto the color deficient reproduction. The methods and their component processes begin with the production of serial ranges of instrumentally measured color intensities of dyed thin polymeric films compensating for the color deficiency or excesses, followed by applying an adhesive layer for bonding as a laminate, and by bonding the color compensating dyed polymeric film onto the initial color deficient reproduction. Critical to the method and processes described is the instrumental monitoring, by digital color indices, of the initial reproduction for the essential spectral characteristics of the color deficiency or excess for which a compensating dyed laminate with its spectral digital color indices from the serial ranges of dyed thin polymeric films is selected for the bonded lamination to produce the desired high fidelity color reproduction.