[argyllcms] Re: Black generation and black ink limiting

  • From: Graeme Gill <graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:11:59 +1100

Fabrizio Levati wrote:
I'm always getting confused in associating A2B, backward and forward. All
the color management papers and books refer to A2B tables as backwards
transformation... :-/

Hmm - they really shouldn't. A2B is the natural direction of an output
device: device values in, CIE values out, so it's "forwards".
B2A inverts the natural direction, so it's "backwards".
(It's consistent with A and B alphabetical order.)

Graeme Gill.

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