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ColorSpaceKind ​

Type: Enum

Coarse colour-space classification

Values ​

ValueDescriptionDeprecated
DEVICE_CMYKUncalibrated device CMYK — the native space for most press work.
DEVICE_GRAYSingle-channel device grey, uncalibrated.
DEVICE_NSeveral named colourants addressed together, such as a duotone or a spot-plus-process combination.
DEVICE_RGBUncalibrated device RGB. In a CMYK print workflow this is what triggers a late, uncontrolled conversion.
ICC_BASEDColour carrying an embedded ICC profile, so its appearance is defined independently of the output device.
INDEXEDA palette space, where samples index into a table of colours held in some other base space.
LABCIE Lab* — device-independent by construction, with no profile needed.
SEPARATIONA single named colourant, i.e. one spot ink.

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