Color Management Course

Knowledge Pre-Test

Please choose the best answer for each question below by writing down your answer selection down. Good luck.

 

1.What necessitates color management?

a. The original doesn't match the printed piece

b. All devices are based on a device dependent color model or space

c. Integrated or open systems have multiple vendor components and solutions

d. DTP is based on the concept called WYSIWYG

e. All of the above

 

2. Device-independent color is based on the?

a. RGB color model

b. HSL color model

c. CIELab color model

d. CMYK color model

 

3. What is gamut mapping?

a. Throwing away some of the pixels in an image in Adobe Photoshop file

b. Red-lining a graphic drawing to illustrate the reproducible colors

c. Mapping out-of-gamut colors

d. Converting a bitmap image from a .TIF format to a .JPG format

e. Tonal or range compression

f. Both C and E

 

4. Does calibration take place before or after color management?

a. Before

b. After

 

5. Color Management Systems adjust the color relationships between scanners, monitors, and printers.

a. True

b. False

 

6. What are the three main parts to a color management system (CMS)? Select three (3) answers from the choices below.

a. A set of device profiles that represent (as CIE values) the gamut, or range, of colors that can be scanned, displayed or printed by any device

b. An inkjet printer

c. A method of converting between the device-dependent color model used by a scanner, monitor or printer (usually RGB, CMYK) and the device-independent CIE color model

d. Software tools for providing the user with on-screen previews of how colors will appear when printed on a particular device

 

7. RIP manufacturers provide color tools for which option?

a. Profile creation (characterization)

b. Profile edit

c. Printer device calibration (linearization)

d. All of the above

 

Thank you for taking the color management course pre-test. Please check your answers to see how you did.

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