Color Scanners--The Color of Digital Originals

Three paramount challenges come to mind: poor tonal range in originals, poor RGB to CMYK color conversion and inadequate sharpening.

While poor tonal range in originals (most likely caused by underexposure, overexposure or even color casts resulting from poor film development) and inadequate sharpening (a negative side effect of halftone printing) are critical, for purposes of this article, let's concentrate on the RGB to CMYK challenge.