COLOR CONTROL -- Managing the Variables

"In reality, there is very little pure application of color management—in the ICC sense—within the pressroom," Hutcheson concedes. "But the pressroom is such a critical part of a fully color-managed system, that it is incorrect to say color management doesn't take place partly in the pressroom."

Color management in the pressroom is about how to stabilize and optimize the printing conditions, or perhaps multiple conditions due to the use of different stocks and presses, the color consultant says. This is accomplished through a program of measurement and changes in materials and processes.