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- From: mack@deci.cs.umn.edu (Dan Mack)
- Subject: Re: Question: difference in viewed and printed images
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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 19:53:17 GMT
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- In <1565@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> sc7@ukc.ac.uk (S.Chan) writes:
-
- >I have printed some decompressed images on hardcopy and they don't
- >look quite the same as that is shown on a monitor, specifically
- >the effects of noise, sharpness and blocking effects. (a 2400dpi
- >printer was used to print the 256-level grey scale images)
-
- >I suppose there is a great difference between viewing pictures on
- >screen and on paper. Does anyone have any experience in resolving
- >this kind of problem? I'm also interested to read materials
- >that have been published on this problem.
-
- >Thanks.
-
- >Chan
-
- The problem you are experiencing are due to the imperfect science of
- gamut mapping. This is a hot topic in computer graphics and falls
- under color theory. There are lots of papers to read on this. For
- some introductory reading you could look at the Foley-Vandam graphics
- book.
-
- Monitors use the RGB color space and are capable of displaying a whole
- range of colors within a certain 'gamut'. Printers use CMY(k) and can
- also display a whole range of colors from a different looking gamut.
- As you might guess, it's easy to display red on a monitor, but it's
- not so easy to display red on printer using Cyan, Magenta and Yellow.
-
- Anyway, this a little of what I recall from my computer graphics
- class. As far as I can remember, color theory doesn't involve much of
- compression research so maybe ask the folks in comp.graphics.*
-
- Dan
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