What is color management?

When most people print for the first time, they're usually shocked to see how much their…print mismatches what they see on their monitor.…Hopefully by now though you understand why getting a match between your monitor and the…printed page is so difficult.…Still it seems like it should be possible for your screen and prints to match.…Fortunately, a lot of really smart people agree with that thought, a lot of work and…engineering has gone into technologies that will allow you to get a better match between…your monitor and your printer.…In this chapter we're going to look at these color management technologies, I'm going to…show you how they work and show you what you need to do to build a color-managed printing workflow.…

Before we get started though I want to issue the disclaimer that what you see me doing…here may not work with the monitor that you already have.…Unfortunately, to get a color-managed workflow that works you've got to spend some money.…You might need to buy a new monitor, and you'll definitely need to buy some…