Xerox 7760 User Manual

Calibration

The checking, adjusting or standardizing of a device. See also Printer 
Color Calibration.

CIE

The Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage. The main international 
organization concerned with color appearance and color measurement.

CIE Lab

The CIE L*, a*, b* color space where: 

L* represents lightness

a* represents redness/greenness

b* represents yellowness/blueness

This is one of the most popular device independent color spaces.

CMYK Color Values 

The numerical color values for the primaries Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and 
Black which are used by printers and other output devices. These colors 
are referred to as device dependent colors. These colors are typically 
generated by applications, such as Adobe Photoshop.

Color Appearance

The perception of the color or colors of an object or image. This can be 
described in terms of hue, saturation, chroma, and lightness. There are a 
large number of human perception factors and color reproduction factors 
that determine the color appearance of a printed page.

Color Management

The process of managing color reproduction. This often involves doing 
color matching between various devices, such as scanners, monitors, 
printers and presses.

Color Patches

See Printed Color Swatches.

Color Swatches

See Printed Color Swatches.

Color Transform

This refers to the portion of an ICC profile that is the mapping of colors 
from CIE Lab color values to and from CMYK color values.

ColorSync

Apple's implementation of ICC-based color management.