The Legbar Thread!

[cjwaldon]

DChicken, thank you for explaining it again. I think I see your point. Essentially, Pantone is a recognized system across many industries, provides over a thousand colors to select from, and you have different avenues of viewing a specific referenced color. If I reference a color on the OAC chart, you can only know what that color is if you also have an OAC Chart. Maybe you only have the Ameraucana egg color chart and I don't. One of us has to buy another chart in order to know what color the other is referencing.

I agree that home printing is not accurate. I have an inkjet color printer and a color laser printer, and brand new the same image printed on each printer looked different. So I would say my printers are not calibrated. Did I load the correct color profile? I've never knew I needed to do that when setting up a printer, let alone how to do it.

Lets not lose sight of what we're trying to accomplish. While being able to match to 1,114 colors might allow us to precisely portray egg color, I don't think it's needed. I'd just as well purchase an already existing color chart, like the Ameraucana egg color chart, or the OAC color chart, or even the Cream Legbar color sample booklet if/when we get to that point, than try to figure out how to calibrate all my electronics. However, if/when we develop a cream legbar color booklet, it does make sense to me (now) to use Pantone colors - industry defined colors that someone can view without obligation to purchase anybody's color chart.

 

[dretd]

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So out of curiosity, how much would it cost to print the colors you are talking about (I assume you are referring to the variety of potential egg colors and not including creams and salmons?) on card stock with Café Press? I have never printed with them and am unsure of their cost plus shipping.

 

[DCchicken]

So out of curiosity, how much would it cost to print the colors you are talking about (I assume you are referring to the variety of potential egg colors and not including creams and salmons?) on card stock with Café Press? I have never printed with them and am unsure of their cost plus shipping.

Not sure, off the top of my head. Cafe Press is just one of many different online printing companies. So we will just have to search around. I am still going to ask my friend at Pantone. It's possible they can provide us with a subset of color charts for cheap. If not, then I will keep looking to find an online printer (or even a local one that will ship for us). D.C. and New York are like publishing central for the U.S. Surely someone will help get the costs down to next to nothing. Maybe I can even get a grant or university to pay for the project. Although the last time I wrote a grant proposal, I swore to never ever do that again. I would rather be interrogated by Judge Judy.

 

[Penny Hen]

I will respectful disagree about a home printer being accurate. never have had some that was. even my 4 color laser printer is not accurate. the best thing would be to print them up and sell them you can offer a free PDF version so people could print it out on the cheap but I don't think it would be a good reference.

I didn't work with PRINTING my business was way more specialized. I know most printers are 4 color and that can be different than PMS as they are spot colors. that is what I used was spot colors. that is also how home printers print in 4 color. everything would have to be PERFECT for a home printer to get it right. I have 4 printers all the same age and model and I would bet they would all print it differently.

Cannon printers come closer than any of the others I have found. The real trick is that you have to know how to calibrate your computer so that the colors you see are the colors you print. Even then the colors you see on a screen are going to seem brighter and clearer because they are actually emmiting light through them like a stained glass window and colors on a page are only reflecting the available light. When printing on my home printer I learned to adjust for the difference between screen and print by making the picture slightly brighter than "perfect" (no more than 5% increase on the exposure setting). Test printing helps you fine tune the exact percent to increase.

 

[dretd]

Although the last time I wrote a grant proposal, I swore to never ever do that again. I would rather be interrogated by Judge Judy.

I'm with you on that! Its nit just the hoops you have to go through, its the rejection after spending so much time on your write-up. Exercises in futility for sure.

 

[Runawaylobster]

If someone sends me the cream colors they want to specify I can measure them and supply you with a reflectance curve or color coordinates. That way you can be very specific when you request a color.

There is software that can recreate the color using this data I think.

the samples need to be a minimum size of 1" height and width. Bigger is better.

 

[Darkangael]

My Legbar eggs didn't hatch. So I did my eggtopsies today and found that 3 didnt develop 1 was an early quitter 1 was a late quitter and the last 1 never pipped internally. So I will disinfect the incubator and try again when I can get ahold of more eggs.

 

[chicken pickin]

My Legbar eggs didn't hatch. So I did my eggtopsies today and found that 3 didnt develop 1 was an early quitter 1 was a late quitter and the last 1 never pipped internally. So I will disinfect the incubator and try again when I can get ahold of more eggs.

That's a bummer sorry to hear that. I hope you find more eggs soon and get a good hatch from them.

 

[KPenley]

My Legbar eggs didn't hatch. So I did my eggtopsies today and found that 3 didnt develop 1 was an early quitter 1 was a late quitter and the last 1 never pipped internally. So I will disinfect the incubator and try again when I can get ahold of more eggs.

I am so sorry for your loss!

 

[HaplessRunner]

My Legbar eggs didn't hatch. So I did my eggtopsies today and found that 3 didnt develop 1 was an early quitter 1 was a late quitter and the last 1 never pipped internally. So I will disinfect the incubator and try again when I can get ahold of more eggs.

Sorry for your loss. I know exactly how that feels. I had batch of 20 CCL eggs in which only two hatched and another batch of 15 CCL eggs in which none hatched. For me it always hurts to lose young life.