Color Management and Reproduction in Digital Printing: A vendor neutral guide for understanding colour printing and matching in images, greys, and solid colours

* Have you ever taken a picture with your phone camera that looked great on the phone screen, but when you opened it on your PC and on your laptop, it did not look as great and colours did not even look the same? * Then you tried to print that picture and were disappointed as the print did not look as you expected? * Your picture has lots of beautiful greys, but those greys looked greenish in the print and not close to the grey purity you expected? * Worse, you have a black and white photo that you printed and then noticed it is not pure black and white and there are some other inks shifting the B&W hue? * You wanted to print a certain colour of a certain brand, and you could not achieve that colour in your prints even after trying your best? * Are you a wide format printer operator or a designer for a printing house and part of your job is to place the right colours in your designs that when printed should match those corporate colours? * Whether you are a photographer, a person who likes to print his/her photos at their best, or whether you are that operator or designer, a student or anyone who wants to know more about colours and digital printing, then this book is for you! * This book is **Simplified.** The objective of this book is to simplify the subject of colour management, no physics, no wavelengths, no unfamiliar names. It was a real challenge to keep it as simple as possible so any person with any level of experience can understand it. **Practical** This book has a practical approach. It contains many real-life examples from real life design and printing issues, their causes, and the explanation of their solutions. **Vendor neutral** This book explains the concepts, problems, and solutions in a vendor neutral environment, after understanding those concepts you could easily apply them on whatever software and hardware you use. **Available formats** This book is available in paperback format : ISBN: 978-1-7777573-1-1 and as course in video format on Udemy: https://www.udemy.com/ Look for: Colour management and reproduction in digital printing. For Christine TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 1.1 Introduction to the book 1.2 Book plan 2. RGB, CMYK, and Inks 2.1 What colours are and how we see them 2.2 RGB colours and light 2.3 CMYK colours and reflection 2.4 Playing with design software 2.5 Digital printing. How does it happen? 2.6 Inks and light inks 2.7 Special inks 2.8 The whitest white of a print 2.9 White point effect on a print 2.10 Lighting condition effect on a print 2.11 Colour gamut 3. Graphic types and file formats 3.1 Raster graphics 3.2 Vector graphics 3.3 Raster and vector graphics together 3.4 File formats 4. From a digital file to a print 4.1 Opening a file on different computers for printing 4.2 Monitor calibration 4.3 Printer calibration 4.4 Printer colour profile 4.5 Input colour profiles or colour spaces 4.6 Output or colour profiles 4.7 Steps for creating printer colour profile 4.8 Raster Image Processing (RIP) software 4.9 Spot colours and named colours 5. Black and grey colours generation 5.1 Generating black and grey from black only 5.2 Composite black 5.3 Printing and comparing both cases 6. Case 1, managing colours in raster graphics 6.1 Colorful raster image with some grey 6.2 Grey image 6.3 Putting it all together 7. Case 2, managing colours in vector and solid colour graphics 7.1 Vector image with solid colour area 7.2 First print 7.3 Logo colour matching, colour swatches 7.4 Colour replacement 8. Case 3, managing colours in a combined image of raster and vector graphics 8.1 Colour management for an image with a logo 9. Bringing it all together 9.1 Back to the introduction 9.2 Bringing it all together 1.2 Book Plan ● EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) ● TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) ● PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Image 1 Image 2 Case 1 Case 2 Case 1 Case 2 6.1 Colorful raster image with some grey Print 2 Print 1 Print 1 Print 2 Our Print Customer Proof About the Author