“PSPs need software solutions that make color management easy, and they need a solution that matches color across media and devices,” said
Manwaring.
On the Same Wavelength: COLOR
Management
Essentials
for WIDE-FORMAT
All the things that make wide-format printing so versatile also make it hard to
color-manage.
By Richard Romano
It has long been said — or at least implied — that color
management is like the weather: everyone talks about it,
but no one ever really does anything about it. Th e need
for color management is well-established in general commercial
printing, but as wide-format in all its myriad forms
has grown, shops are discovering the need to manage their
digital devices as well.
One of the inherent problems of color management for
wide-format printing is the sheer number of variables — diff erent
presses, diff erent ink sets, diff erent substrates, and diff erent
applications. All the things that make wide-format printing so
versatile, also make it diffi cult to color-manage.
Color management blues
Take all the available ink technologies. “Th ere are solvent
based, dye-based, UV-curable, latex, and dye-sublima-
22 Wide-Format & Signage August 2017 PrintingNewscom