Colour Management
What is colour management?
Colour management is essentially the process of controlling the way colours are represented across various devices such as cameras, computer monitors, and printers. We rely on Colour Profiles in order to achieve consistent colour through the process of digital printing.
Colour profiles are small data files which are used by software to convert or map colour values from a digital image file to a monitor then finally a printed image.
Colour profiles are small data files which are used by software to convert or map colour values from a digital image file to a monitor then finally a printed image.
Image colour profile
Colour profile - Camera/Scanner e.g sRGB
The image file will have a camera or scanner profile embedded, or will be be set to 'no colour management'.
The image file will have a camera or scanner profile embedded, or will be be set to 'no colour management'.
These are the best suited colour profiles to our printers:
sRGB
The sRGB color space is a smaller range of displayable colors than Adobe RGB and ProPhoto RGB. Although it has a smaller range of displayable colors, it is considered the standard and is the color space used by browsers across the web and for many monitors and other types of displays including mobile phones and tablets.
Adobe 1998 RGB
The Adobe RGB color space is larger than the sRGB color space and includes more shades of green and red than sRGB. Typically Adobe RGB is only used for printing because using Adobe RGB over sRGB for printing allows you to take advantage of the larger range of greens and blues in your prints.
The sRGB color space is a smaller range of displayable colors than Adobe RGB and ProPhoto RGB. Although it has a smaller range of displayable colors, it is considered the standard and is the color space used by browsers across the web and for many monitors and other types of displays including mobile phones and tablets.
Adobe 1998 RGB
The Adobe RGB color space is larger than the sRGB color space and includes more shades of green and red than sRGB. Typically Adobe RGB is only used for printing because using Adobe RGB over sRGB for printing allows you to take advantage of the larger range of greens and blues in your prints.