User's Guide
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plays use phosphors that give off red, green, and blue light to display an image on the screen.
Prole – A le containing a description of the color characteristics of a device such as a monitor,
printer, or scanner.
Refresh Rate – The number of times the display screen is electronically scanned or “painted”
each second. Expressed in Hertz (Hz).
Saturation – An expression of the amount a color deviates from being achromatic (neutral in color,
such as gray). For example, red is a saturated color, while pink is less saturated, and white has no
saturation.
SECAM – Sequentiel Couleur Avec Mémoire (Sequential Color with Memory). A standard for en-
coding video signals used mainly in France and Eastern Europe.
Soft Proof – Previewing on a display monitor what an image will actually look like when printed on
a particular printer.
Subtractive Primaries – Cyan, magenta, and yellow colors, such as dyes or inks that subtract
light reecting off objects giving the appearance of color. For example magenta ink subtracts
green light. When combined together, cyan, magenta, and yellow produce black.
Tone Response Curve – A graph representing the relationship between the input and output of a
system or device. In MultiProler, Tone Response Curves represent the relationship between the
intensity of a color within an application and the light intensity displayed on the monitor.
Upstream (USB connection) – The input connection to a USB hub device.
USB – Universal Serial Bus. A communication bus used to connect up to 127 devices such as
keyboards, mice, scanners, color sensors, etc.
Viewing Booth – (See Lightbox)
White point – Species the color of pure “white” on a display, usually as a Color Temperature ex-
pressed in Kelvin or as CIE xy chromaticity coordinates.