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Color Gamut

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color gamut
The entire range of colors available on a particular device such as a monitor or printer. A monitor, which displays RGB signals, typically has a greater color gamut than a printer, which uses CMYK inks. When a color is "out of gamut," it cannot be properly converted to the target device; for example, to a different type of printer. See color management system and color space.
Color Gamut 

in fine and decorative art, a number of harmoniously related color nuances (with one predominating), used to create an artistic work. As a rule, this term is accompanied by the usual color definitions: thus, the color gamut is called warm, hot, cold, light, and the like.



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In addition to its standard UV inkjet inks which have a broad color gamut and are very durable, Jetrion also offers custom inks with fluorescent dyes and nanotechnology markers into its formulations.
This combination expands the color gamut (range of reproducible colors) that can be rendered within the color spectrum that humans can discern with the unaided eye, and enables the display to reproduce more than 99% of real surface colors(2).
Utilizing an NTSC color gamut of 72 percent, the 21.
 
 
 
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