Apparatus and method for color correction in the manufacture of printing forms which uses a correction circuit to determine correction parameters that are stored and then used in a correcting circuit for the color correction process and wherein the determination and correction are separate processes and in which in the correction circuits there are arranged a regulating unit controlled by digital values in the path of each the signal to be corrected and that the regulating units can be adjusted for determination of the correction parameters to digital values so as to obtain the desired correction and which are then stored in a storage medium from which they can be transferred in at least one correction circuit for a subsequent color correction process.