Xerox 7750B PhaserMatch and PhaserCal 4.0 User Guide - Page 29

Glossary Calibration CIE CIE Lab CMYK Color Values Color Appearance Color Management Color Patches Color Swatches Color Transform ColorSync The checking, adjusting or standardizing of a device. See also Printer Color Calibration. The Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage. The main international organization concerned with color appearance and color measurement. The CIE L*, a*, b* color space where: L* represents lightness a* represents redness/greenness b* represents yellowness/blueness This is one of the most popular device independent color spaces. The numerical color values for the primaries Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black which are used by printers and other output devices. These colors are referred to as device dependent colors. These colors are typically generated by applications, such as Adobe Photoshop. The perception of the color or colors of an object or image. This can be described in terms of hue, saturation, chroma, and lightness. There are a large number of human perception factors and color reproduction factors that determine the color appearance of a printed page. The process of managing color reproduction. This often involves doing color matching between various devices, such as scanners, monitors, printers and presses. See Printed Color Swatches. See Printed Color Swatches. This refers to the portion of an ICC profile that is the mapping of colors from CIE Lab color values to and from CMYK color values. Apple's implementation of ICC-based color management. PhaserMatch and PhaserCal 4.0 User Guide A-1