Labels:text | book | paper | paper product | handwriting | publication | document | font | printing OCR: PhotoDisc® ColorGuide TM Five Steps to Better Color Defining the challenge If you've been designing with digital images, here's a scenario you may have encountered: Leafing through an image resource book, you find an image whose colors are perfect for the design you're working on, so you purchase and download the image, or you purchase a CD-ROM that contains it. But when you view it on your monitor, suddenly the colors don't match the image in the book at all. And when you print it the colors seem light-years away from those of the original. What went wrong? And where? Let's face it, designing with color isn't an automatic what-you-see-is-what-you-get proposi- tion. Reliable color reproduction requires knowledge, patience, a fair amount of experience and the right tools. Color management systems (CMSs) attempt to account for the differ- ent color-reproduction capabilities of scanners, digital cameras, monitors and printers - that is, all the devices in the chain from initial input to final output. CMSs do the best they can with all the variables present. But colors - and their reproducible ranges - tend to change while journeying from device to device and environment to environment. 3
