REINING IN ACCURACY FOR COLOR MANAGEMENT

Harnessing the power of color

The most current thinking on color management suggests that printers fingerprint (record the characteristics of their presses in a color profile) and proliferate them as far downstream as possible. Says Johansen, "Perhaps the best thing a printer can do is make his press profiles available to design houses, where an artist can load it into Photoshop and see from the beginning what the end result is mostly likely to be."