Colour
copiers, printers and other digital printing equipment are not yet suitable for
printing orienteering maps for high level competitions. It is very
difficult to achieve the line quality, legibility and colour appearance of
traditional spot colour offset printed maps using this kind of
equipment.
It is
expected that the continuing development of computer technology will lead to
the possibility of using alternative printing methods with quality suitable
for large competitions.
Most printing
devices use a 4-colour technique (CMYK). For such devices the same
colour settings as recommended for 4-colour offset printing may be suitable,
but the colour appearance will vary slightly from one device to another and from one paper quality
to another.
