Color Management--Degrees of Separation

The subjective nature of color evaluation compounds the perceived problems—often driving critics to throw up their hands and give up on the hope of ever receiving the consistency that is desired.

For example, many commercial printers are fans of the International Color Consortium (ICC) and recognize ICC profiles as the only viable building blocks for delivering consistent color from device to device in today's printing environment. ICC profiles, they contend, allow them to calibrate monitors, scanners and a gamut of output devices to ensure correct color throughout a print job.