Whats a colour management system?
Software and hardware for scanner, monitor and printer calibration have had limited success in dealing with the inaccuracies of colour handling in desktop computing. These solutions deal with specific pairs of devices but cannot address the end-to-end system. Certain application developers have added colour transformation capability to their applications, but the majority of application developers have insufficient expertise and insufficient resources to invest in accurate colour. A colour management system (CMS) is a layer of software resident on a computer that negotiates colour reproduction between the application and colour devices. It cooperates with the operating system and the graphics library components of the platform software. Colour management systems perform the colour transformations necessary to exchange accurate colour between diverse devices, in various colour coding systems including RGB, CMYK and CIE L*a*b*. The CMS makes available to the application a set of faciliti
