The devices throughout your workflow use
different methods to produce color. These methods are often based on
different color models and as a result, the devices operate in
different color spaces. Your computer monitor produces color with light
and operates in an RGB color space. Your desktop printer produces
colors with inks or dyes that work in a CMYK color space. Some colors
can be viewed on a computer monitor that cannot be printed on desktop
printer or printing press. Likewise, some colors can be produced with
inks that cannot be displayed on a monitor.
Even
when two devices use the same color model to produce color, they will
have different color spaces. For example, a CRT monitor and an LCD
monitor both use RGB to produce colors. However, because both use
different means to display color, the range of color (color space) of
both monitors would be different. The CRT monitor would display a
specific red value differently than the LCD monitor.
Even
two monitors of the same brand and model frequently display the same
color differently. It's nearly impossible for two devices to be
completely identical, given the limitations of manufacturing and
materials. Go to an electronics store and look at a wall of television
monitors. Each monitor displays colors differently.
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