Datacolor User to User Support Group.

--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, C D Tobie <CDTobie@...> wrote:
>
> Intents, for the most part, decide how to print "unprintable" colors.  
> If you can't reach that particular taxi-cab yellow, what available  
> yellow would you prefer? The brightest one possible (Saturation  
> intent), or the most literal one possible even if its rather dull  
> (Relative Colorimetric), or one where all your other colors are  
> blindly desaturated in case the cab yellow, or some other color, may  
> exceed the printer's reach, so that all the desaturated colors will  
> have appropriate relations to one another, even if none of them are  
> literally correct (Perceptual, though we don't do it that way!)
> 
> C. David Tobie
> Global Product Technology Manager
> Digital Imaging & Home Theater

The above is the best explanation of color intents that I have ever read! 

Watch out Mark Twain!

John