This fully updated and revised edition of the classic treatise on color technology combines the clarity and ease of earlier editions with two decades of advancement in theory and technology. Defining color as a certain kind of light, its effect on the human eye, or, most important of all, the result of this effect in the mind of the viewer, it offers detailed information on color, colorants, the coloring of materials, and reproducing the color of materials through imaging.

The fully updated Third Edition of Billmeyer and Saltzman's Principles of Color Technology retains important material on paints, plastics, textiles, and other materials, augmenting this information with in-depth coverage of computer-generated color, digital image capture, desktop color printing, and color management — achieving color fidelity across a range of devices including scanners, digital cameras, monitors, output devices, etc. There is expanded coverage of color quality measurement, the mathematics of color technology, and color modeling.

From the Preface: “...In writing the third edition, I have tried to retain the spirit of the first and second editions, aided, of course, by many conversations and manuscript reviews by Billmeyer and Saltzman. Each has been foremost in my mind throughout. I have followed two guiding principles: Keep it simple and emphasive the principles. Those readers familiar with the second edition will notice an increase in the number of color technologies described. Today, colorimetry is an integral component of nearly every industry manufacturing colored products...”

Target Audience: Color technologists, color specialists, chemical and industrial engineers, computer scientists, research sicientists, and mathematicians interested in color.

Table of Contents:

Defining Color

Describing Color

Measuring Color

Measuring Color Quality

Colorants

Producing Colors

Back to Principles

Mathematics of Color Technology

Bibliography

Index