Color Management
Output Color Management
Introduction The Ergosoft RIP provides several tools for color management. These tools can be separated into two distinct parts of the color management workflow: tools that affect input colors and tools for output control. Input Color Management ...
Input Color Management
Introduction The ErgoSoft RIPs provide several tools for color management. These tools can be separated into two distinct parts of the color management workflow: tools that affect input colors and tools for output control. Input Color Management ...
Color Management Workflow in ErgoSoft RIPs
Introduction One of the most important factors of large format printing is ouput color fidelity. Print output not only needs to show vibrant colors but these colors need to be the same across a wide range of different materials and printers. To ...
Tips for choosing the right Rendering Intent
There are many aspects affecting color fidelity during the printing process, and printing the "right" colors is a subject that many books have been written about. The following section will attempt to give a brief overview of some points that may ...
Rendering Intents (Gamut Mapping)
The rendering intent specifies how out-of-gamut colors of the device-independent Lab color space are to be converted into the printer gamut. This conversion is necessary because the Lab color space holds much more colors than the printer gamut. A ...
Color Spaces
Basics In technical terms, color is defined as a spectrum of wavelength that is reflected from a given object when it is hit by (white) light. White light itself is the combination of all wavelengths of the (visible) spectrum. To express this ...
Data Formats
Images are made up of either pixel data, vector data, or a combination of the two. In the end, both types of data are rendered as pixels on a display device, but the way in which the data is constructed and saved is very different between the two. ...
File Formats
Pure Raster Formats The ErgoSoft RIP supports the following raster file formats: TIFF, PSD, BMP, PNG, JPEG (or JPG). The BMP (Bitmap) and the PNG (Portable Network Graphics) format are internally used in the Microsoft Windows operating system to ...
Basics
The term Color Management describes a controlled conversion of a color value from the color space of one device to another, while retaining it's visual appearance. Color Management can help transition colors between e.g. scanners, digital cameras, ...