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ADOBE INDESIGN 2.0
Classroom in a Book
Color management: An overview
Devices and graphics have different color gamuts. Although all color gamuts overlap, they
don’t match exactly, which is why some colors on your monitor can’t be reproduced in
print or online. The colors that can’t be reproduced in print are called out-of-gamut colors
because they are outside the spectrum of printable colors. For example, you can create a
large percentage of colors in the visible spectrum using programs such as InDesign,
Photoshop, and Illustrator, but you can reproduce only a subset of those colors on a
desktop printer. The printer has a smaller color space ...