Printer Points

Printer Points manipulate the red, green and blue values of the overall image and separately in user definable shadow, midtone and highlight areas using motion picture laboratory printer points as the unit of measure. When creating color prints for motion pictures, a contact printer performs scene-to-scene color corrections. The most popular printing method is additive printing that uses three separate colored sources - red, green, and blue which are combined to form the light source that exposes the film. The red green, and blue light valves in the printer are adjusted in values of 1, 2, 3...up to 60 for each primary color and are called printer points or printer lights.