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• CAMP
  The Color Appearance Model Profile Format is an XML-based file format that contains viewing conditions required to describe the relationship between the DMP CIEXYZ values and the CIEJab values.
• CMYK
  The Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and blacK color space. It is often implemented on printers.
• colorant
  Something, especially a pigment or an ink, that colors or modifies the hue of something else.
• color channel
  A component of a color space. For instance, an RGB color space has red, green, and blue color channels.
• color conversion
  The process of converting colors from one color space to another.
• Color Management Module (CMM)
  A code module that uses device profiles to perform color conversion and color mapping.
• color mapping
  See color matching
• color matching
  Matching a converted color to its visually closest color in the destination color space.
• color model
  See color space.
• color space
  A mapping of color components onto a geometric coordinate system in three dimensions.