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Managing Color With ColorSync


Calibration

Your application can provide calibration services. A calibration application offers the option of calibrating a peripheral device based on a standard state or calibrating the device based on its current state.

If a peripheral device, such as a color printer, has drifted from its original state over time, a calibration application can make use of the characterization data contained in the corresponding profile to bring the color response back into range.

A user may want to improve the reproduction quality of a device without returning the device to a standard state. Your application can create a profile based on the current state of the device, then use the profile to characterize that device. This approach to calibration maintains the existing dynamic density range while improving the device's overall quality.

Note

You can also provide a monitor calibration plug-in, as described in Monitor Calibration and Profiles.


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