Color Management--Degrees of Separation

Color management is like a fingerprint for any commercial printing operation—from one printer to the next, no two will have the exact same color-managed workflow, with the same approach to managing and communicating accurate color from device to device. "Perhaps it is understandable that so many live with inconsistent color output devices—getting a handle on consistency for every color output device in a given workflow is a seemingly daunting task," suggests Bruce L. Myers, corporate accounts manager at X-Rite. Myers also teaches color reproduction at New York University's Center for Graphic Communications Management and Technology.