As color input, display and output devices become prevalent, the need for managing color becomes greater and greater. Color management refers to tools that support color matching, editing, preservation and storage. Color management offers the means of transmitting color images and documents containing color across local and wide area networks and between diverse operating systems and applications while maintaining the fidelity of the colors of the original image or document.
Gerald M. Murch, "Cross-Platform Image Fidelity" in Proc. IS&T 2nd Color and Imaging Conf., 1994, pp 65 - 68, https://doi.org/10.2352/CIC.1994.2.1.art00019