Inkjet Color Conundrum

Mary Schilling, an expert on color and inks, and coauthor of “The Designer’s Guide to Inkjet,” points out that issues arise when designers don’t have a consistent color space with the output device that is being targeted. Many designers use SWOP or are just oblivious — using the color space that was the default of the software. She recommends GRACoL (General Requirements for Applications in Commercial Offset Lithography), the largest color space.