Re: [lug] Re: GIMP: is CMYK imprtant for monochrome work (fwd)

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• Subject: Re: [lug] Re: GIMP: is CMYK imprtant for monochrome work (fwd)
• From: Gregory Parkinson <glp@panix.com>
• Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 20:16:37 -0400
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At 2:23 PM -0600 7/18/00, Wayde Allen wrote:
>[...]



>Were you just to take an RGB image and then use the simple formula to
>convert it to CMYK, your results on the printed page (off a printing press)
>would be unacceptable. Many folks have spent a lifetime on just doing
>"color science" to perfect what are now in the industry called "color
>profiles", where you are profiling the color gamuts of the source image,
>your monitor and the target device (ink on paper.)

I've never had the nerve to ask this before - what does "gamut" mean?

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