Color Management aims for safe and reproducible communication of colors and, among other topics, assumes it can widely correct systematic errors introduced in prepress. Color measuring devices and the errors introduced in the production process are analyzed to gain information on their systematic/random behaviour. Origin, size and parameters influencing random errors introduced are discussed in terms of possible ways to suppress them and to understand error propagation in the production process. Noise on the printing signal, intentionally addressable color levels and errors due to image data compression are highlighted.
G. Gonzalez, T. Hecht, A. Ritzer, A. Paul, J.-F. Le Nest, M. Has, "Color Management—how accurate need it be?" in Proc. IS&T 5th Color and Imaging Conf., 1997, pp 270 - 276, https://doi.org/10.2352/CIC.1997.5.1.art00054