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Managing Color With ColorSync


About ColorSync

ColorSync is the first system-level implementation of an industry-standard color management system. Even in a system in which all input, output, and display devices are new and perfectly calibrated, there will be differences in device gamuts (the ranges of color that can be reproduced by the devices). ColorSync can correct for such differences in device gamuts, as well as for differences caused by aging of filter sets and lamps on scanners, phosphor decay and ambient light on monitors, and differences in pigments and substrates on output devices such as printers and presses. As a result, it is possible to maintain accurate color across many possible input, display, and output devices.

Developers writing device drivers use the ColorSync Manager to support color matching between devices. Application developers use the ColorSync Manager to communicate with drivers and to present users with color-matching information, such as a device's color capabilities.


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