Gray Balance
The most effective real-world test of a monitor, particularly after calibration, is how well it displays a gradient from black to white.
gray balance
the combination of cyan, magenta, and yellow halftone dots that yield a neutral gray tint without hue for a specific press, substrate, and ink combination.
Gray Balance: In four-color process printing, proper proportions of the three-process colors (yellow, magenta and cyan) create the appearance of neutral gray with no apparent hue.
Gray balance
The balance between CMY colourants required to produced neutral grays without a colour cast.
As you can see from the samples below (switch between the two by moving your mouse over the labels) Adobe RGB mode doesn't affect the gray balance of the image but does deliver a very different color response, ...
John Panazzo created ImagePrint, a replacement RIP for many printer manufacturers and models that delivers neutrality and gray balance while separating black-and-white files by reducing the use of yellow ink and thereby reducing metamerism and ...
An important goal of this adjustment is to render specific colors - particularly neutral colors - correctly; hence, the general method is sometimes called gray balance, neutral balance, or white balance.
A device independent color space (also commonly called a “working' space) developed by Adobe. It provides a relatively large gamut (that encompasses most CMYK print devices) that is gray balanced and perceptually uniform.
 See also: Gray, Color, Camera, Balance, Image
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