week 3

Question 1

What are the methods of producing colour?

Answer 1

Spectral, RGB, CMYK

Question 2

Closed loop colour management

Answer 2

Each device of the workflow is tested to see which device counts produce the same amount of colour as another device

Question 3

Open System colour management

Answer 3

Each device count is linked to a colour system (aka colour management)

Question 4

What does GRACoL stand for?

Answer 4

General requirements and applications for commercial offset lithography

Question 5

What is one difference between the old GRACoL and SWOP vs the new version?

Answer 5

New specifications are entirely colorimetric

Question 6

What are the 3 C’s of colour management?

Answer 6

Calibration, characterization, conversion

Question 7

What is done during calibration?

Answer 7

Establishing a fixed repeatable condition for a device, and bringing the device back to this known condition

Question 8

What is done during characterization?

Answer 8

measures the output values and linking them to the known input values (profiling)

Question 9

What is done during conversion?

Answer 9

Converting one description of colour into another

Question 10

What is Apple’s colour management system?

Answer 10

Coloursync

Question 11

What are the founding members of the ICC?

Answer 11

Adobe, Agfa, Apple, Kodak, Taligent, Microsoft, Sun, Silicon Graphics

Question 12

What type of colour is device dependent?

Answer 12

RGB and CMYK

Question 13

What type of colour is device independent?

Answer 13

Lab* and Yxz