Wide-format Printing: Optimizing colour management

Wide-format Printing: Optimizing colour management
By Bart Fret for Sign Media (Canada)
For a long time, colour management was only seldom used in large-format printing. Sign shop personnel would linearize and then send their cyan, magenta, yellow and key/black (CMYK) jobs to their digital printers. As such, they relied on these devices’ printable gamut, but this led to issues with colour consistency and repeatability.