How to Achieve Great Color Every Time (1,549 words)

Finally, print your proof using a substrate (paper) that is as close to what will be used on-press as possible in surface texture, brightness and gloss.

International Color Consortium (and other) Profiles

One emerging methodology for color matching and management is "embedded profiles" in your devices. Your printer probably uses computer-to-plate correction curves—profiles to adjust your color when they "RIP" your job to the plate. This is a system of values and transfer curves that takes into account a press' ink densities, dot gain and other color balancing characteristics, adjusted to the paper to be used on the job.