Color Management - Konica Minolta Magicolor 7300 Reference Manual

Color Management

KONICA MINOLTA technology automatically optimizes color output to
produce professional quality, colorized documents without the use of
sophisticated manual optimization techniques.This chapter starts with a brief
introduction about color in general, and how your color laser printer
processes color.
Color is a visual perception involving:
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A light source.
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An object that absorbs, reflects, or transmits the light of the light source.
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A detector, which receives and interprets the reflected light from the
object.
A distinction must be made between light radiated by a source and light
reflected from an object. Although closely related, they represent two different
fundamental principles.
Additive Colors
Science has proved that
any color can be produced
with three colors: red,
green, and blue (the
illustration demonstrates
this with the help of three
flashlights). These are
called the primary additive
colors.
By mixing these colors in
different combinations at
various intensities, all
visible colors can be
simulated. Light sources
radiate light of various percentages of red, green, and blue.
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White light is a mix of 100% red, 100% green, and 100% blue.
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