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Rendering intent: Saturation (business graphics)

This setting optimises the output of bright, saturated colours.

Saturation rendering intent preserves saturated colours, and is advised if you try to keep colour purity in computer graphics. Pure saturated colours in the original RGB device will still be saturated colours in the output colour space, even if this results in relatively more extreme colours.

Saturation rendering intent is not advised for photos, because this setting does not try to keep colour realism. The colour saturation can come at the expense of changes in hue and lightness, which is normally an unacceptable trade-off for photo reproduction.

You can also use saturation rendering intent to prevent visible dithering if you must print computer graphics on a printer. It is not possible to prevent all dithering, because printers never can match every colour. Saturation rendering intent can minimise dithering if the colour is very close to pure.