Color Management--Degrees of Separation

"We had total control of the dot at all stages of the process. The L*a*b reading told us the opacity, hue and saturation at each stage and the ICC profiling allowed us to compensate for each output device," Macfarlane explains. "Once we had the pigments in the inks and ink sheets matching, we used ICC profiling to compensate for the difference in the dry ink sheets and the wet press inks."