A guest article by online printer Pixartprinting.
Iris was goddess of the rainbow and messenger of the other gods of ancient Greece. She was also the most elusive divinity. She appeared, traced her bow through the sky, then suddenly fled, as Roman poet Ovid tells us. Colors fill us with bliss, but they have been hard to seize for centuries. Maybe the wish to grasp the rainbow is what pushed humanity to tame color. It has been a long, arduous enterprise. But we have finally learnt the trick: how to trap colors in paper, tissue and objects, and distribute them to millions of people. What follows is the story of how the printers conquered the rainbow. Read more