Why colors sometimes don't match

The colors in an image change as you bring the image in from a scanner or digital camera and view it on your computer monitor. The colors change again when you send the image out to be printed on your desktop printer or printing press. This is because every device--a digital camera, scanner, computer monitor, desktop printer, printing press--operates within a different color space. Incorrect color transformation or lack of color transformation from one color space to another causes color inconsistency. Correctly transforming the color values creates color consistency. For more information on correctly transforming the color values,