Understanding Color Management 2nd Edition explains the basics of color science needed to understand color profiling software, color measuring instruments, and software applications, such as Adobe Photoshop and proofing RIPs. It also serves as a practical guide to International Color Consortium (ICC) profiles, describing procedures for managing color with digital cameras, LCD displays, inkjet proofers, digital presses, web browsers and tablets. Updates since the first edition include new chapters on iPads, tablets and smartphones, home-cinema projection systems, as well as, with the industrial user in mind, new chapters on large-format inkjet for signage and banner printing, flexography, xerography and spot color workflows.

This third edition of Color and Its Reproduction: Fundamentals for the Digital Imaging and Printing Industry presents an updated treatment of the concepts and technologies related to the processes of how we define, produce, and evaluate color reproduction quality. This authoritative text is directed to all who seek greater understanding of the fundamentals of color and color reproduction.

Quality printed color reproductions are an essential component of maintaining success in the printing industry. Color Essentials, Volume 3 provides a comprehensive understanding of concepts such as color quality judgment, “exact” and “preferred” color, color specification, color correction, 3D color, and more.

Color Printing Excellence explores the nuances of such topics as additivity and proportionality failure, press color optimization, the use of extra inks, distinctions between exact and preferred color, the finer points of the color viewing standard, color correction strategies, and the human and economic dynamics of the color OK process. A significant portion of this material has been updated from the third edition of the book Color and Its Reproduction.