Rendering Intents: 'Absolute Colorimetric - Oce ColorWave 600 User Manual

Rendering intents: 'Absolute colorimetric'

Rendering intents: 'Absolute colorimetric'
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Absolute colorimetric is similar to relative colorimetric, but uses a different
method to handle the white point.
Absolute and relative colorimetric both keep gamut colors and clip those out of
gamut, but absolute colorimetric also keeps the white point.
Absolute colorimetric is advised for "proofing" applications, that require a good
color match, but also emulation of paper white. As a result of that, white areas can
become yellowish, because the printer tries to emulate the whitepoint of the input
profile.
This setting provides the highest accuracy in rendering RGB colors into CMYK
colors, including rendering the source's white.
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Note: You can see the minor level of blue of the monitor background as
a bluish white in the lightest tones of the printed output. A minor yellow
tone can occur in the white tones of a PDF/TIFF original or an HP-GL
type document.
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