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How to transform spot colors without ambiguities

On an RGB screen or a CMYK laser printer spot colors cannot be displayed directly and must be emulated by converting them into their process color equivalent. The Separation and DeviceN color spaces provide tint transform functions to do so. However, with NChannel colors spaces there exist separate transforms for the individual components and for the collection of the components. Which one to take? Expert-Blog – read more about transforming spot colors

On an RGB screen or a CMYK laser printer spot colors cannot be displayed directly and must be emulated by converting them into their process color equivalent. The Separation and DeviceN color spaces provide tint transform functions to do so. However, with NChannel colors spaces there exist separate transforms for the individual components and for the collection of the components. Which one to take?

Expert-Blog - read more about transforming spot colors


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