Maximize Color and Contrast in Multimedia Images
After scanning a color photograph into a computer, one assumes it will reproduce well on the screen and on those to which it has been sent via the Internet. The ease with which this can now be done, however, conceals the complexity of the underlying technology and the challenges involved in getting various input and output devices to reproduce colors well. The reason is that one monitor may use red, green and blue (RGB) primaries with additive mixing, while the printer has cyan, magenta, yellow...
Photonics Spectra, May 2003