Using Global Color Mapping

The Global Color Mapping module allows you to map the colors in your job using LAB color space, a device-independent color space.

Because it uses LAB color space, Global Color Mapping has the following advantages:

• You can determine the color values using a measurement device, such as a spectrometer, because the devices measure color in LAB.
• Because LAB is device-independent, you do not have to measure each color separately for each device and type of output media. Once you map a color in Global Color Mapping, it is done for all devices and media.

However, Custom Spot Color Mapping can yield color values that are slightly more precise, though at a far greater cost in time and effort.

Global color mapping only affects jobs that are added after the color mapping has been added. Jobs that are already queued are not affected.