One of latest developments for pre-press applications is the concept of soft proofing, which aims to provide an accurate
preview on a monitor of how the final document will appear once it is printed. At the core of this concept is the problem
of identifying, for any printed color, the most similar color the monitor can display. This problem is made difficult by
such factors as varying viewing conditions, color gamut limitations, or the less studied time spacing. Color matching
experiments are usually done by examining samples viewed simultaneously. However, in soft proofing applications, the
proof and the print are not always viewed together. This paper attempts to shed more light on the difference between
simultaneous and time-spaced color matching, in order to contribute to improving the accuracy of soft proofs. A color
matching experiment setup has been established in which observers were asked to match a color patch displayed on a
LCD monitor, by adjusting its RGB values, to another color patch printed out on paper. In the first part of the experiment
the two colors were viewed simultaneously. In the second part, the observers were asked to produce the match according
to a previously memorized color. According to the obtained results, the color appearance attributes lightness and chroma
were the most difficult components for the observers to remember, generating huge differences with the simultaneous
match, whereas hue was the component which varied the least. This indicates that for soft proofing, getting the hues right
is of primordial importance.
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