Softproof
A soft proof is – in contrast to the classic “Hard Proof” on paper – a proof, which is soley displayed on a monitor.
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Spectral photometer
Spectral photometers (or spectrophotometers) are high-quality colorimeters that can measure and accurately describe any colour.
Spectrophotometer
Spectrophotometers are high-quality colorimeters that can measure and accurately describe any colour.
Spot Colour
Spot colours are inks that do not belong to the CMYK colour space, but are printed as a real colour in an additional inking. The most important representatives are PANTONE, HKS and TOYO colours.
sRGB
sRGB is the most widely used RGB colour space, and was created for monitors by Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft in 1996. sRGB is the standard colour space of all inexpensive digital cameras and scanners.
Standardized light
A standardized light is called a defined light condition under which the viewer can view and assess prints or objects uniformly. The most important standard illuminants D50 are in accordance with ISO 3664:2009 for printmaker and for colour matching in prepress and press (colour temperature: 5,000 kelvin) and D65 (colour temperature: 6500 K) for internet graphic designer. D65 is the default setting for most monitors.
SWOP
Specification for Web Offset Publications. Name of an organization and a collection of North American printing standards that define, among other things, the colour values of the primary colours cyan, magenta, yellow and black. They refer to the ISO standard, but are not identical. There are also SWOP specifications for proofing.