As the print-out quality of consumer level printers improves, the use of such printers in the graphic business field and pre-press/ press fields has become possible. The EPSON PM-9000C was developed for large size printouts. It uses the same inkjet technology as consumer level printers, but has better color stability and color reproduction. Its quality in these areas is even better than other types of printers such as Laser or sublimation transfer. Color management conditions have improved such that color matching can be handled more easily. This improvement is a result of the standardization of ICC, OS environments, application environments and supported driver environments. The task of color matching for general users is still quite difficult due to the many possible ways it can be carried out. In this article I will describe the current situation for color matching of large format printers, and also describe their future direction.
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