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1. C 150 918 Ipi 82 5 Choose an output paper size M 150 918 Ipi 52 5 Y 150 918 Ipi 7 5 K 150 918 Ipi 112 5 Paper Size Letter Data Format Choose Binary Halftone Screen 60 Ipi M Use EfiColor Screen Values f 8 10 Page Layout Applications Windows r Printer ia seal Default Printer Cancel currently Specific Printer Ei i C Network M Orientation Paper n G Portrait Size Letter Al Landscape Source AutoSelect Tray z Use PDF For z I Adjusted Screen Values Choose the Fiery 3850C PPD Halftone Freq 60 lpi Resolution 400 dpi Data Binary b Choose Binary Image Il Flip Horizontal J Flip Vertical J Invert Paper width Paper Offset Page Gap Choose an output paper size If adocument contains RG B placed images or RGB colors that Q uarkX Press will print without converting to CM YK choose RGB Source and Rendering Style settings If the document contains PAN TONE colors choose the appropriate Spot Color M atching setting For instructions on specifying print options see Chapter 1 Chapter 9 Illustration Applications 9 1 Working with illustration applications This chapter provides instructions for using Illustrator for Windows and M ac OS FreeH and for Windows and M ac OS and CorelD RAW for Windows an
2. COLOR GUIDE Copyright 2002 Electronics For Imaging All rights reserved This publication is protected by copyright and all rights are reserved N o part of it may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means for any purpose without express prior written consent from Electronics For Imaging except as expressly permitted herein Information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Electronics For Imaging T he software described in this publication is furnished under license and may only be used or copied in accordance with the terms of such license This product may be covered by one of more of the following U S Patents 4 500 919 4 837 722 5 212 546 5 343 311 5 424 754 5 467 446 5 506 946 5 517 334 5 537 516 5 543 940 5 553 200 5 615 314 5 619 624 5 625 712 5 666 436 5 760 913 5 818 645 5 835 788 5 867 179 5 959 867 5 970 174 5 982 937 5 995 724 6 002 795 6 025 922 6 041 200 6 065 041 6 112 665 6 122 407 6 134 018 6 141 120 6 166 821 6 185 335 6 201 614 6 215 562 6 219 659 6 222 641 6 224 048 6 225 974 6 226 419 6 238 105 6 239 895 6 256 108 6 269 190 6 289 122 6 292 270 6 310 697 6 327 047 6 327 050 6 327 052 RE36 947 D 406 117 D 416 550 D 417 864 D419 185 D 426 206 D 439 851 D 444 793 Trademarks ColorW ise ED OX EFI Fiery the Fiery logo Fiery D riven and RIP WhilePrint are reg
3. 3 Choose the desired working space profile for each mode in the Working Spaces area Use the following guidelines for specifying working spaces e For RGB choose EFIRGB T his profile represents the default RGB color space used by the Fiery 3850C N ew RGB documents you create in Illustrator will use this working space e For CMYK choose a profile that describes your target press such as SW O P if you are a prepress user If you are an office user printing final output choose an output profile that describes the printer connected to the Fiery 3850C To use a device specific output profile upload the profile from the Fiery 3850C to your computer New CMYK documents you create in Illustrator will use the specified working space 9 5 Adobe Illustrator for Windows and Mac OS 4 Choose policies for handling documents without embedded profiles or with embedded profiles that differ from the working space in the Color Management Policies area Choose O ff from the RGB and CMYK menus T his option discards the original profile embedded in adocument if it differs from the specified working space In the Profile M ismatches area select the Ask W hen O pening option T his option displays an alert message that allows you to override the specified policy behavior O ff when opening documents or importing color data 5 Choose settings for converting between color spaces in the Conversion Options area Choose Adobe ACE from
4. Simulation Profile Settings xj Profile Description DIC new OV Default IV Appear in Driver as Simulation 1 x OK Cancel Apply W hen you choose Profile Settings for an output profile the Use Calibration Set option also appears You must calibrate the Fiery 3850C with this calibration set before this option has any effect If you have never measured for this calibration set default measurements will be used For more information about calibration sets see page 3 2 In Profile Settings you can also change profile descriptions for all non locked profiles 4 10 ColorWise Pro Tools 4 Click OK H Fiery Profile Manager Aero Browse C AWINNTASystem32 Color A Description Mie Ei Delete Edit Profile Settings View Description 5 EFIDIC ICM DIC new Filename Description Copyright Device Class Description DIC EFI Euroscale EFI SWOP Coated EFI DIC new b DDD Description Calibration Set i eee r RGB Source Description Appear in Driver as eS A Apple Standard Apple Standard sRGB PC sRGB PC EFIRGB EFIRGB Appear in Driver as DIC Euroscale SWOP Coated Simulation 1 _ Appear in Driver as Aero Color Profile Plain Paper Creation Date Last Modified Copyright c 1998 1999 Electronics for Imaging Inc All rights reserved 2 9 99 11 28 17 AM 7 2
5. Illustrator 9 x uses a sophisticated color management system that can handle both RGB and CMYK colors for a variety of color managed workflows By customizing color settings you can specify the amount of color management you want to use while working in Illustrator 9 x T hese color settings include Working spaces D efault color spaces to use when working with RGB and CM YK documents ICC color profiles describe the gamut and color characteristics of these working spaces Color management policies nstructions that tall Illustrator 9 x what to do when it encounters color data from a color space other than the specified working space Specifying print options The following procedure outlines the recommended color settings for Illustrator 9 x in aFiery 3850C workflow 9 4 Illustration Applications TO SPECIFY COLOR SETTINGS 1 Choose Color Settings from the Edit menu 2 Select Advanced Mode In Advanced M ode amore extensive list of options is displayed Color Settings Settings Custom ith M Advanced Mode m Working Spaces RGB Monitor RGB Generic RGB Profile CMYK U S Web Coated SWOP Color Management Policies RGB off CMYK Off Profile Mismatches 4 Ask When Opening C Ask When Pasting Conversion Options Engine Adobe ACE We Intent Relative Colorimetric M Use Black Point Compensation Description
6. You can select the print options that suit your print needs C hoose the Fiery 3850C PPD from the Printer D escription menu in the Print dialog box Mac OS Print Copies m Pages All I Range Separators Document Setup Output Options Preview Profiles Choose the Fiery 3850C PPD Printer Description v Paper Size Letter w Choose an output paper size Paper Width 8 5 Paper Offset Paper Height 11 bd Page Gap Reduce or Enlarge 100 O Fitin Print Area Page Positioning Left Edge v Orientation ti Click to specify printer settings Fase Setup freer Capture settings Concer erme 8 8 Page Layout Applications Windows Properties Choose the Fiery 3850C Printer z Print Style Document zl Copies fi Pages fan z Range Separators Document Setup Output Options Preview Profiles Printer Description z Click to specify printer settings Choose the Fiery 3850C PPD Paper Size Defined by Driver ud Paper width ay Paper lliset a Raper Hegn m pagetan oo Reduce or Enlarge 10 I Fitin Print Area Page Positioning flctEdce Orientation Portrait C Landscape Cancel Capture Settings If the document contains PAN TON E colors choose the appropriate Spot C olor M atching setting For instructions on specifying print options see Chapte
7. e If your print seems too light enter a higher value e If light areas on your prints havea color cast enter a lower value in the Start row for that toner e If dark areas on your prints havea color cast enter a higher value in the End row for that toner Using a spectrophotometer ColorW ise Pro Tools Calibrator is designed to work with the X Rite D T P41 spectrophotometer a device that measures density and color data The DT P41 communicates directly with the Calibrator application in ColorW ise Pro Tools sending measurements to the Fiery 3850C automatically 3 8 Color Calibration Setting up the spectrophotometer Before you calibrate the Fiery 3850C you need to connect configure and calibrate the spectrophotometer to prepare for measuring the printed patches see Calibrating the X Rite D T P32 densitometer on page 3 28 For additional information about setting up and using the D PT 41 seethe Instrument O perator s M anual that came with it To CONNECT THE X RITE DTP41 To THE COMPUTER 1 Turn off the computer 2 Unpack the X Rite DTP41 and remove the spacer from the measurement page slot 3 Plug the square end of the interface cable looks like a modular phone plug into the serial interface connection on the side of the X Rite DTP41 Instrument button Alignment mark LED indicator Measurement page slot Power input Calibration strip entrance Serial interface
8. Applies the specified white point value to the RGB source color space definition see page 1 5 To use this print option you must choose O ther as the RGB Source setting 1 3 Managing color on the Fiery 3850C Fiery 3850C color print option CMYK Simulation Profile What it does Adjusts CM YK color data to simulate an offset press standard or a custom SW OP Coated D I C Euroscale Simulation 1 10 N one Default set at Setup or in ColorW ise Pro Tools color gamut defined at your site Choosing N one bypasses simulation see page 1 6 Note Some of the Simulation settings have slightly different names depending on the model of printer Output Profile D efault output profile O utput 1 10 Default set at Setup or in ColorW ise Pro Tools T he Output Profile is applied to all data in the print job see page 1 6 User defined output profiles can be downloaded to the Fiery 3850C using ColorW ise Pro Tools see Chapter 4 Pure Black Text Graphics On Off D efault set at Setup The On setting optimizes the quality of black text and line art output see page 1 7 Black Overprint O n O ff D efault set at Setup The On setting overprints black text placed on colored backgrounds it automatically activates the Pure Black Text G raphics option see page 1 8 Spot Color Matching On Off D efault set at Setup or with ColorW ise Pro Tools TheOn setting enables Fiery 3850C matching
9. A SWOPCoated EFI SWOP Coated DiC new Custom profile ee Te created with A Description Calibration Set Appear in Driver as X Aero Color Profle Plain Paper Z Color Editor KII View Description z Filename EFIDIC ICM Device Class Creation Date 279 99 11 28 17 AM Description DIC new Last Modified 7 28 00 2 58 32 PM Done Copyright Copyright c 1998 1999 Electronics for Imaging Inc All rights reserved 4 For the purposes of this example assume D IC new is a custom simulation profile created with Color Editor As you can see no information is displayed for DIC new under the heading Appear in D river as 4 9 Profile Manager 2 Select DIC new in the Simulation list and click Profile Settings or double click DIC new Select the Appear in Driver as checkbox choose one of the predefined custom simulation names Simulation 1 through Simulation 10 from the pop up menu and then click Apply M ake sure to choose a name that is not already linked with another simulation If you try to define two profiles with the same name you will get an error message For an output profile the predefined custom names would be O utput 1 through Output 10 Note W hile you cannot delete a preset profile you can use the name of a preset profile name for your edited profile when you select the Appear in D river as option T his replaces the preset profile with your own profile
10. For example if you specified a ColorSync System Profile on your M ac O S computer the RGB Source Profile setting overrides it In cases where you do not want this setting to override another specified source color space choose N one W hen you specify a setting other than N one for the RGB Source Profile since the color space definitions are overridden the prints from the Fiery 3850C will be consistent across platforms Below are the Fiery 3850C RGB Source Profile options EFIRGB specifies an EFI defined color space recommended for users who have no detailed information about their RGB data sRGB PC specifies the industry standard definition for a generic Windows PC monitor Apple Standard specifies the definition of all standard M ac OS computer monitors Other allows you to specify custom RGB source settings If you choose O ther as the RGB Source setting you can choose settings for the Gamma Phosphors and W hite Point options Sources 1 10 specify the definitions you download asRGB source profiles For more information about downloading RGB source profiles see Chapter 4 None instructs the Fiery 3850C to allow the RGB sources you defined elsewhere such asin the application to be used W hen you set RGB Source to None the appearance of colors will not be independent of the file type For example RGB EPS files will look different from RGB TIFF files 1 6 Fiery 3850C Color Management With RGB Source set to N one
11. Preserve Embedded Profiles gt Profile Mismatches Mw Ask When Opening Mw Ask When Pasting Missing Profiles uw Ask When Opening m Conversion Options Engine Apple ColorSync Intent Relative Colorimetric Use Black Point Compensation Muse Dither 8 bit channel images m Advanced Controls CI Desaturate Monitor Colors By B C Blend RGB Colors Using Gamma Description ColorSync Workflow Preparation of content using ColorSync CMS and profiles selected in the ColorSync control panel Note this preset only works under MacOS and is not portable to Windows based systems 7 3 Specifying color settings 3 Choose the desired working space profile for each color mode in the Working Spaces area Use the following guidelines for specifying working spaces For RGB choose the profile for the default RGB color space used by the Fiery 3850C In most cases thisis EFIRGB Consider sRGB if you usually view images on a generic PC monitor or rely on a Windows operating system to manage color on your monitor If you choose SRGB as a working space you must print with the C olorW ise RGB Source option set to RGB N ew RGB documents you create in Photoshop will use this working space Note EFIRGB is set as the default RGB Source color space on the Fiery 3850C No matter what RGB space you select make sure it is available on the Fiery 3850C For CMYK choose a profile that describ
12. QuickD raw to display and print when running M ac OS We refer to these GD and QuickD raw applications as office applications All office applications handle color similarly using the same RGB color model used for the color monitor display M ost office applications allow you to choose colors from a palette of preselected colors some allow you to add new colors to the palette using a color picker Although some applications allow you to specify color using the CMY HSL and H SV color models these applications always send RGB color data to the Fiery 3850C An exception to thisisaCM YK EPS file placed in the document which issent as CM YK data W hen working with color in office applications keep in mind that The range of colors that can be displayed in RGB on your monitor is much larger than the range of colors that can be printed on your printer When you print the document out of gamut RGB colors are mapped to colors your printer can produce e Office applications send only RGB data to the Fiery 3850C You control the rendering style of the color conversion with your selection of a CRD Each CRD uses a different color rendering style and therefore has a different way of mapping unprintable colors to the color gamut of your printer Fiery 3850C color rendering styles are described on page 1 4 5 4 Working with Color in Applications Choosing colors in office applications Two RGB color reference pages a M icrosoft W
13. The following sections outline the recommended color settings for Photoshop 6 x and 5 x in aFiery 3850C workflow T hese color settings include Working Spaces D efault color spaces to use when working with RGB and CM YK documents ICC color profiles describe the gamut and color characteristics of these working spaces Color Management Policies Photoshop 6 x or Profile Mismatch Handling Photoshop 5 x Instructions that tell Photoshop what to do when it encounters color data from a color space other than the specified working space Photoshop 6 x color settings Photoshop 6 x uses a sophisticated color management system that handles document colors for a variety of color managed workflows By customizing color settings you can specify the amount of color management you want to use while working in Photoshop 6 x 7 2 Adobe Photoshop TO SPECIFY COLOR SETTINGS FOR PHOTOSHOP 6 X 1 Choose Color Settings from the Edit menu 2 Select Advanced Mode In Advanced M ode amore extensive list of options is displayed Settings ColorSync Workflow Advanced Mode m Working Spaces RGB ColorSync RGB EFI RGB vif Ca CMYK ColorSync CMYK Generic CMYK Profile Fi al Gray ColorSync Gray Generic Gray Profile Spot Dot Gain 20 Preview Color Management Policies RGB Preserve Embedded Profiles CMYK Preserve Embedded Profiles Gray
14. connection 3 9 Using a spectrophotometer 4 Attach the connector to the computer For aWindows computer insert the 8 pin mini DIN end of the interface cable into the 9 pin D B9 Connector cable adapter Insert the 9 pin end into the COM 1 or COM 2 port on the computer and tighten the screws If the available port on your computer is 25 pin you must use the 8 pin to 25 pin adapter Unused connector Square connector Connect to computer Interface cable Connect to adapter 3 10 Color Calibration For aM ac OS computer connect the 8 pin mini DIN plug directly into the serial port of the computer Unused connector Connect to serial port Note For Macintosh computers with a U SB port for example an iM ac you need an adapter to connect the DT P41 to your computer See the X Rite Inc web site www x rite com for information on supported adapters 3 11 Using a spectrophotometer Use the AC adapter to provide power Plug the small connector on the adapter cable into the power input of the X Rite DT P41 and plugtheAC adapter into the power cord Plug the power cord into a wall outlet AC adapter Power cord Small connector Turn on the computer Use ColorWise Pro Tools to calibrate the X Rite DTP41 see page 3 28 Use ColorWise Pro Tools and the DTP41 to calibrate the Fiery 3850C see page 3 16 Calibrating the spectrophotometer For the best color accuracy you s
15. download your own output profile to the Fiery 3850C see page 4 5 Downloaded output profiles are at first associated with the default calibration target CMYK simulation If you use the Fiery 3850C to print proofs for an offset press job or simulate another print device choose the appropriate CM YK Simulation Profile and CM YK Simulation M ethod print option settings see page 1 6 Chapter 6 Office Applications 6 1 Working with office applications The Fiery 3850C ColorW ise color management system provides complete color management for jobs printed from office applications T his chapter provides instructions for printing color documents from GDI and QuickD raw applications such as presentation soreadsheet and word processing programs You can use these instructions with the M icrosoft O ffice applications Working with office applications Before printing from these applications make sure the appropriate printer driver and the Fiery 3850C PPD areinstalled on your computer as described in Getting Started Defining colors Office applications use the RGB color modal For instructions on defining colors see Choosing colors in office applications on page 5 4 The only way to use CM YK or PANTONE colorsis to define them in EPS files with an illustration or page layout application and then place these files into office documents Colors in EPS files are preserved until they reach the Fiery 3850C assuming no PostScript C
16. fa coe E ven amp Odd a Print style Custom Current settings not saved Ej Saye As Print Preview Print Cancel Apply Help On Mac OS computers click the Printer button in the General Print dialog box to select the printer and print options To use Fiery 3850C color management make sure the U se color profile option in the M isc tab of the Print dialog box is not selected If this option is selected CorelD RAW color management settings are used to convert RGB colors and images to CMYK 9 14 Illustration Applications Print EE x General Layout Separations Prepress PostScript Mise I5 2 Issues Do not select to use Fiery 3850C Color Management fs i Set Profiles l printer profile Print job information sheet Info Settings Proofing options v Print vectors Full color v Print bitmaps All colors as black v Print text Print all text in black All colors as grayscale Fit printer s marks and layout to page j Bitmap downsampling Color 200 Fountain steps 256 Grayscale 300 Output color bitmaps as CMYK Rasterize entire page 600 Monochrome 1200 Print Preview Cancel Apply Help If a document contains placed RGB images choose RGB Source and Rendering Style settings for your printer W ith the exception of placed RGB images these settings have no effect on colors printed with C ore D R
17. 0700 3 0 1000 0 1000 0 1000 0 1000 more data 33 1 6700 1 3400 0 8900 1 6700 34 1 7200 1 4300 0 9300 1 7500 Example of 1D Status T density for EFI 21 patch page This file format is used to specify the StatusT density measurements of the EFI 21 patch page The value in the first column is the patch number T he first patch must be 1 and the last must be 21 EFI 3 EFI ColorWise 2 0 Data type 1DST21 Cyan Magent Yellow Black 1 0 0300 0 0400 0 0200 0 0400 2 0 0600 0 0700 0 0800 0 0700 3 0 1000 0 1000 0 1000 0 1000 more data 20 1 6700 1 3400 0 8900 1 6700 21 1 7200 1 4300 0 9300 1 7500 C 3 Importing Densitometer Measurements Example of 1D Status T density for an arbitrary page This file format is used to specify the StatusT density measurements of a user defined patch page The valuein the first column is the ink toner percentage of the patch The first percentage must be 0 and the last percentage must be 100 T he percentages must increase in between EFI 3 EFI ColorWise 2 0 Data type 1DST percnt Cyan Magent Yellow Black 0 0000 0 0300 0 0400 0 0200 0 0400 0 3922 0 0600 0 0700 0 0800 0 0700 1 1765 0 1000 0 1000 0 1000 0 1000 more data 98 0000 1 6700 1 3400 0 8900 1 6700 100 0000 1 7200 1 4300 0 9300 1 7500 additive color model A system in which colors are produced by combining red green and blue light the additive primaries An RGB video monitor is based on an a
18. 3 35 complements color A 7 compression JPEG 7 12 7 15 7 18 7 20 computer monitors s monitors Configuration page calibration status 3 5 continuous tone devices A 6 Contrast ICC rendering style 1 4 Control Panel calibration from 3 2 3 17 3 29 CorelDRAW 9 12 CRDs bypassing 6 2 8 2 9 2 PostScript color matching 1 17 rendering intent 5 3 custom color systems 5 5 A 8 D default color controls set in Setup 1 2 densitometer calibrating 3 28 DTP32 3 1 3 8 to 3 11 3 25 to 3 28 DTP41 3 12 density patches 3 5 device profiles B 3 drivers see printer drivers E EFICOLOR profiles 8 8 XTension 8 8 EPS Encapsulated PostScript color conversion of RGB EPS images 1 5 recommended for imported images 6 1 7 11 7 18 8 2 9 1 9 2 9 8 9 12 9 14 RGB images saved with Photoshop 7 12 7 17 7 18 Excel se M icrosoft O ffice F file size of raster images 2 3 A 10 flexography A 5 font size for color text A 8 FreeH and 5 5 9 9 9 12 1 3 Index G gamma B 4 Gamma option 1 2 gamut of monitors B 2 of photographic transparencies B 2 of print devices B 1 gamut mapping B 3 GDI applications using color in 5 3 to 5 5 Graphics D evice Interface se G D GraphicsICC rendering style 1 4 graphs using color in A 7 gravure A 5 H halftoning A 4 A 6 H SB color model 5 5 A 3 HSL color modd 5 3 5 5 H SV color model 5 3 hue saturation and brightness A 1 A 3 l ICC profiles assigning to RGB images 9 2 in
19. A print made from a set of film separations or other file to simulate the results of printing A prepress proof is the last opportunity to catch problems before the print job goes to press G 6 Glossary presentation graphics rendering A color rendering style that creates saturated colors but does not match printed colors precisely to displayed colors It is appropriate for bright saturated colors used in illustrations and graphs process colors The four colors used in printing to simulate full spectrum color images Cyan M agenta Yellow black CM YK QuickDraw Graphics and display technology built into Mac OS computers Q uickD raw applications rely on Q uickD raw rather than the PostScript language to send text and pictures to printers raster image Electronic representation of a page or image using a grid of points called pixels rendering intent The style of color rendering or gamut mapping designed for a particular type of color job An example of a rendering intent is Photographic rendering also referred to as Image rendering or Contrast rendering which is designed for photographic images resolution The number of pixels per inch ppi in a bitmap image or the number of dots per inch dpi that a device can render RGB An additive color model that makes a range of colors by combining red green and blue light called the additive primaries Commonly used to refer to the color space mixing
20. By choosing colors from these reference pages you can ensure that you get the same color from your printer For best results calibrate the Fiery 3850C before printing the reference pages Note Swatch color matching does not match monitor colors to printed colors For this you must use a color management system and calibrate your monitor Using the CMYK Color Reference TheCMYK Color Reference included with your Fiery 3850C user software lets you see how various cyan magenta yellow and black combinations look when printed on your printer Yelow CMY Car Reference Magenta a ME i I Ge EE EE ee a a CMYK Color Reference To print the CM YK Color Reference download the file to the Fiery 3850C T he printed pages display groups of color patches in graduated combinations of yellow magenta and cyan and smaller patches that include 25 50 and 75 black Refer to these pages to pick colors and specify process color values in your application For the location of the file on the User Software CD see Getting Started PANTONE Coated Color Reference The PANTONE Coated Color Reference included with your Fiery 3850C user 5 7 PostScript applications software can help ensure predictable results with colors chosen from the PANTONE color library The information printed by the PANTONE Coated Color Reference depends on the setting of the Spot Color M atching setting On Prints swa
21. Coated A Description Calibration Set Appear in Driver as AeroColor Profle Plain Paper a View Description Filename Device Class Creation Date Description Last Modified Done Copyright The left side of the screen lists theICC profiles in the default directory of your computer T he right side lists each of the three types of profiles on the Fiery 3850C The lock icon to the left of a profile name indicates that the profiles cannot be deleted and can be edited only if it is saved under anew name Only Simulation and Output profiles can be edited A small icon to the left of a profile name indicates the default profile for each category RGB Source Simulation and O utput If you designate a different profile as the default the icon appears next to your designated profile T he icon indicating the default RGB Source and O utput profiles looks like a target 4 4 ColorWise Pro Tools Select the profile you want as the default for a profile type and click Profile Settings In the Profile Settings dialog box click Default and click Apply Profile Settings dialog box for Simulation left and Output right Simulation Profile Settings Eg Profile Description Output Profile Settings x r Profile Description iery 3850C 600dp SWOP Coated EFI OVW Default OW Default EE A aaa r Use Calibration Set JV Appeer in Drivera R
22. Color Matching Can be used with PostScript devices such as the Fiery 3850C It provides for color conversion using acolor rendering dictionary CRD that is downloaded with the print job T his method requires that the file be saved as an EPS with PostScript Color M anagement selected Note If you use the PostScript Color M atching option the driver may depending on the application in use attach a CM YK source definition to the CM YK data in your document In this case the CM YK data in the document is reseparated using a Fiery 3850C CRD and converted to the selected output profiles CM YK color space ColorSync Color Matching Provides for color conversion on the host computer This option can be used with PostScript devices such as the Fiery 3850C but it is intended for use with PostScript Level 1 devices If you use this option be sure to specify the Fiery 3850C ICC profile as the Printer Profile ColorSync Color M atching is not a suggested color matching method because it does not work in conjunction with all applications and requires that you disable features of C olorW ise on the Fiery 3850C 1 18 Fiery 3850C Color Management Setting Fiery 3850C color management options In the AdobePS Print dialog box choose C olor M atching from the pull down menu 8 7 2 104 Printer AERO_Print Destination v General Acrobat 5 0 Job Notes O Collate Reverse Order Background Printing C
23. Comments may be on any line in the file and these lines start with a pound sign followed by a space A line with a pound sign followed by any character other than a space has been reserved Comments must be on an entire line by themselves Each line of data contains five values T he first number is the sequential patch number for EFI 34 and EFI 21 pages or the ink value percentage for other pages The following four values are the density values of C M Y and K of the corresponding patch Lines are ordered either by increasing sequential patch numbers or by increasing theink percentage For Windows computers the file extension must be cm1 For M ac O S computers the filetype must be TEXT M easurement data in EF 34 and EFI 21 are paper relative For other pages if the first line corresponds to zero ink value the C alibrator assumes that the measurement data is absolute and adjusts it to become paper relative by subtracting the density values of the first line from the remaining patches C 2 Importing Densitometer Measurements Example of 1D Status T density for EFI 34 patch page This file format is used to specify the StatusT density measurements of the EFI 34 patch page The value in the first column is the patch number T he first patch must be 1 and the last must be 34 EFI 3 EFI ColorWise 2 0 Data type 1DST34 Cyan Magent Yellow Black 1 0 0300 0 0400 0 0200 0 0400 2 0 0600 0 0700 0 0800 0
24. P32 you need to connect configure and calibrate the densitometer to prepare for measuring the printed patches see Calibrating the X Rite DT P32 densitometer on page 3 28 For additional information about setting up and using the D T P32 see the documentation included with it 3 26 Color Calibration TO CONNECT THE X RITE DTP32 TO THE COMPUTER 1 Turn off the computer 2 Plug the square end of the interface cable looks like a modular phone plug into the 1 0 port on the side of the X Rite DTP32 gt Q Square connector 3 Attach the connector to the computer For a Windows computer insert the 8 pin mini DIN end of the interface cable into the 9 pin D B9 Connector cable adapter Insert the 9 pin end into the COM 1 or COM 2 port on the computer and tighten the screws If the available port on your computer is 25 pin you must use the 8 pin to 25 pin adapter Unused connector Square connector Connect to computer Connect to adapter Interface cable 3 27 Using a densitometer For aM ac OS computer connect the 8 pin mini DIN plug directly into the serial port of the computer Unused connector Connect to serial port Note For Macintosh computers with a USB port for example an iM ac you need an adapter to connect the DT P32 to your computer See the X Rite Inc web site www x rite com for information on supported adapters 4 Use the AC adapter to provide po
25. Profile SWOP Standard s Load Engine Built in Save Intent Perceptual Images a M Black Point Compensation j Preview Check this option Select the Preview option For CM YK M odd select ICC Previous versions of Photoshop used Photoshop Separation Tables and you can load then for Photoshop 5 x H owever you will get better results using ICC profiles and the built in color management system In the ICC Options area choose from the Profile Engine and Intent menus e For Profile choose your final output printer ICC profile Prepress users should choose an ICC describing their target press such as SW O P O ffice users should choose the ICC profile describing the printer connected to the Fiery 3850C In this case we recommend you leave images in RGB and allow the Fiery 3850C to convert them to CM YK H owever if you want to use Photoshop to convert RGB images to the CM YK color space of the Fiery 3850C you must first upload one of the output profiles from the Fiery 3850C to your computer see page 4 7 and then select it in Photoshop CM YK Setup T he output profile for the Fiery 3850C isalso available on the User Software CD see Getting Started Note For information about uploading and downloading profiles see Chapter 4 e For Engine choose Built in so the Photoshop engine will be used e From Intent choose Perceptual I mages which is appropriate for photographs normally edited in Photoshop T he In
26. Saving files for importing into other documents 9 12 O ptional color management in FreeH and 9 12 CorelDRAW for Windows and Mac OS 9 12 D efining colors 9 12 Importing images 9 13 Selecting options when printing 9 13 Saving files for importing into other documents 9 14 Optional Color Management in CorelD RAW 9 14 Desktop Color Primer The properties of color A 1 The physics of color A 1 CIE color model A 2 H ue saturation and brightness A 3 Printing techniques A 5 H alftone and continuous tone devices A 6 Using color effectively A 6 A few rules of thumb A 7 Color wheel A 7 Color and text A 8 Raster images and vector images A 9 xii Appendix B Appendix C Contents Optimizing files for processing and printing A 10 Resolution of raster images A 10 Scaling A 12 Color Management Controlling printed color B 1 Maintaining printer consistency B 2 Print device gamut B 2 Basics of color management B 3 Color conversion B 4 Importing Densitometer Measurements Simple ASCII Import File Format SAIFF C 1 Example of 1D StatusT density for EFI 34 patch page C 2 Example of 1D StatusT density for EFI 21 patch page C 2 Example of 1D StatusT density for an arbitrary page C 3 Glossary Bibliography Index Introduction xiii About the documentation This manual introduces the concepts and issues associated with printing to the Fiery 3850C It outlines key workflow scenarios provides information on calibration an
27. When you select a calibration set in Calibrator the last calibration and the user who performed it are displayed Calibrating from the Control Panel using VisualCal VisualCal is a calibration method that allows you to calibrate your printer to a color output standard defined by the manufacturer T he calibration calculations performed by the controller software are based on a series of values entered on the control panel T he values used in the calculations are determined by evaluating toner densities and color combinations produced on two specially designed calibration pages printed from the control pand Limits and 30 Match The first VisualC al page Limits and 30 M atch provides the basis for calculating the most acceptable luminosity brightness of the toners T his page consists of rows of CMYK dotsin a graduated range of toner densities The variables needed to recalculate the densty of the colored toners are determined by identifying the leftmost dots that can be fully distinguished against their fields in each row and sequentially entering their corresponding numeric values on the control 3 6 Color Calibration panel T he variable needed to recalculate the luminosty of the toners is determined in a slightly different way you identify the black dot that best matches a 30 dot gain field When all values have been entered the printer s toner density and luminosity settings are recalculated Gray Balance The sec
28. additional profiles as needed by modifying the existing ones You can also download profiles listed below from any workstation to the Fiery 3850C RGB Source sRGB PC source color space for a generic W indows computer monitor Apple Standard standard source color space for M ac O S computer monitors with older versions of ColorSync EFIRGB preset default setting for a Fiery 3850C Simulation SWOP Coated United States press standard Euroscale European press standard DIC Japanese press standard Output Fiery 3850C 600dpi v1F profile that describes the printer e Fiery 3850C 1200dpi v1F profile that describes the printer at a higher print resolution Note For more information on output profiles see page 1 6 4 3 Profile Manager Setting the default profiles The default profiles are applied to all print jobs sent to the Fiery 3850C unless you override them using print options T herefore the defaults should be the most commonly used profiles TO SPECIFY A DEFAULT PROFILE 1 Launch ColorWise Pro Tools and click Profile Manager fiery Profile Manager Aero BEES RGB Source Description B Description _Appear in Driver as DIC EFI amp Apple Standard Apple Standard Euroscale EFI sRGB PC sRGB PC EFIRGB EFIRGB A Description Appear in Driver as A DIC EFI DIC Euroscale EFI Euroscale A SWOP Coated EFI SWOP
29. and line art will not exhibit halftone artifacts and will not be misregistered since there is only one toner used In addition this setting diminates blasting T his option is automatically get to On when the Black O verprint option is set to On For some jobs you may want to turn this option O ff for example if the page includes gradient fills that use black T he table below describes the behavior of the Pure Black Text G raphics option with black data defined in different color spaces 1 8 Fiery 3850C Color Management Note The Pure Black Text Graphics option can be used only when printing composites not when printing separations Input Pure Black Text Graphics black color on off RGB W ith the default profile prints a rich black using all toners CMYK Prints only with black toner because C M YK simulations preserve the black channel T he actual Prints 100 black amount of toner used depends on the current simulation and the calibration state of the printer Spot Prints only with black toner because spot color simulations preserve the black channel T he actual amount of toner used depends on the current simulation and the calibration state of the printer Note PostScript applications such as Q uarkX Press may convert elements defined as RGB 0 0 0 to four color CM YK black before sending the job to the Fiery 3850C These elements are not affected by the Pure Black Text Graphics op
30. brightness are reflected in the curve s 8 You can adjust the curves directly by clicking and dragging points on the curve or by entering numbers into the input and output boxes The graph maps the input percentage to the output percentage T hese percentages refer to the size of the CM YK halftone dots T he curve you selected appears and points along the curve are marked so you can adjust them A curve with this shape makes a color appear lighter by reducing density in the midtones A curve with this shape makes a color appear darker by adding density in the midtones A curve with this shape increases contrast i oomnaoagaawo o m Note You should adjust points in this way only after you have entered the D ot Gain and Brightness values 4 16 ColorWise Pro Tools 10 For greater precision you can key in percentages in the Input and O utput boxes or use the arrow keys on the keyboard to adjust the curve To use the arrow keys you must first click on the curve to establish an anchor point that serves as a reference For an output profile you can set maximum densities of the C M Y and K channels You can enter the maximum densities called D M ax values of individual colors for profiles that support density settings D M ax settings are not available when editing Simulation profiles in M aster mode When you are finished click Save and enter a name for the new profile The new custom pr
31. color at a different intensity allowing millions of different colors to be reproduced using only the four process colors Depending on the required intensity of a given color toner is placed on paper in dots of different size T he grid of dots used for each toner color is called a screen H alftone screens are aligned to unique angles designed to eliminate interference patterns called moir that can arise with halftoning Some color print devices are commonly referred to as continuous tone or contone devices T hey do not use traditional halftone screen patterns and angles Contone devices are capable of varying the intensity of individual dots Even if your color printing is done exclusively on the Fiery 3850C you will encounter concepts from offset printing if you use high end graphics applications For example color controls in illustration applications such as Illustrator are geared toward specifying color for offset printing using process and spot colors M any applications allow you to specify the screening used for each printing plate Using color effectively The ability to print in color can greatly increase the effectiveness of your message whether you are printing a presentation or anewsletter or proofing an ad concept that will later be printed on press Some potential benefits of using color include e Conveying information rapidly by using color cues e M aking use of the emotive aspects of different colors e Incr
32. color for most short run color printing jobs without adjusting any settings Simple workflows Every time you print adocument containing colors that were not chosen for your specific printer those colors need to be converted which requires color management You can define or modify colors at any stage in the workflow Since C olorW ise is compatible with most other color management systems you can use the workflow most familiar to you This section provides examples of color workflows that should meet the needs of most Fiery 3850C users For information on specific desktop applications see Chapters 6 through 9 Select your colors wisely For the colors you see on your monitor to match those on your printed output they must go through color management including precise calibration of your monitor and printer If you are not equipped or inclined to maintain accurate monitor color management you may opt for an easier approach First determine which is more important you printed colors or monitor displayed colors If displayed colors are more important trust your eyes and your monitor Visually select colors on your monitor but be aware that colors will be optimized only for your monitor W hen the document is opened on other monitors the colors may look different And even though printed colors may not match those displayed on your monitor they will still print on the Fiery 3850C with good results 2 4 Simple and Advanced Workf
33. connected Consult the dealer or an experienced radio T V technician for help In order to maintain compliance with FCC regulations shielded cables must be used with this equipment O peration with non approved equipment or unshielded cables is likely to result in interference to radio and TV reception T he user is cautioned that changes and modifications made to the equipment without the approval of manufacturer could void the user s authority to operate this equipment Industry Canada Class B Notice This Class B digital apparatus complies with Canadian IC ES 003 Avis de C onformation C lasse B de l Industrie Canada C amp appareil num rique de la Classe B est conforme ala norme N M B 003 du Canada Certificate by M anufacturer I mporter Thisisto certify that the FC07 is shidded against radio interference in accordance with the provisions of VFG 243 1991 T he G erman Postal Services have been advised that this device is being put on the market and that they have been given the right to inspect the series for compliance with the regulations Bescheinigung des H erstellers I mporteurs Hiermit wird bescheinigt dass der FC 07 im bereinstimmung mit den Bestimmungen der VFG 243 1991 funkentstort ist D er D eutschen Bundespost wurde das Inverkehrbringen dieses G erates angezeigt und die Berechtigung zur U berpriifung der Serie auf Einhaltung der Bestimmungen einger umt RFI Compliance Notice T his equipment has been tested concerning co
34. conversion to CM YK datais performed by the Fiery 3850C using a CRD by PostScript using PS Color Management or by Photoshop using Photoshop separation settings e When you print RGB images you can choose whether a color conversion is performed by the Fiery 3850C usinga CRD or by Photoshop using Photoshop s separation settings e When you print CM YK images you can print composites or color separations Note You can not use the Combine Separations feature of the Fiery 3850C to recombine separations printed from Photoshop Printing RGB images Use the following instructions to print RGB images 8 7 2 104 Printer _feroPrint_ 7 Destination Adobe Photoshop 4 0 v O Print Selected Area Encoding ASCII Binary JPEG Printin Gray RGB CMYK Select to print using the Fiery 3850C CRD Select to print using Photoshop separation settings N Choose whether to print in RGB or CM YK With the AdobePS printer driver for M ac OS these options appear in the Adobe Photoshop pane of the Print dialog box e If you select Print in RGB Photoshop sends RGB data to the Fiery 3850C and a CRD performs color conversion Choose the appropriate print option settings for RGB data see Chapter 1 7 20 Adobe Photoshop Note The Fiery 3850C Rendering Style option specified will take effect if the Fiery 3850C RGB Source Profile option is set to N one e If you select Print in CMYK Pho
35. driver 1 15 W indows 98 M e color management print options 1 13 W indows 98 M e printer driver 1 12 W indows Graphics D evice Interface seGD applications Word s M icrosoft O ffice workflow advanced 2 7 color proofing 2 1 ICC profiles 2 13 short run jobs 2 1 simple 2 3 with Illustrator 2 9 with Photoshop 2 7 2 15
36. e Set up the Fiery 3850C for printing To set print options see the information for your operating system on page 1 12 Under the Fiery Printing tab click the C olorW ise menu to select settings for the print options described on page 1 2 Aero Properties 2 x General Details Color Management Fiery Printing Statistics PostScript Fonts Accessories About Copies Saved Settings r Shortcuts fl Default Settings eR gz Input Tray Destination a E L Auto Tray Select LPrinter s Default Lof Lot Duple gt Watermarks Click the ColorWise menu gt Print Quality 1 14 Fiery 3850C Color Management Click the Expert Settings button to access additional ColorWise options gt Print Quality E is Click Expert Settings to display additional color settings for the Fiery 3850C Each option allows you to select settings for your specific job Expert Color Settings Printer s Defaut Printer s Default Printer s Defaut Printer s Defaut Printer s Defaut Dets Heb 1 15 Printer drivers and print options Selecting O ther for RGB Source Profile brings up the following window for specifying custom RGB source settings see page 1 5 Other Gamma Printer s default Other White Point Printer s default z Other Phosphors Printer s default X Cancel For most users the default settings provide the right l
37. editing application such as Photoshop and perform color correction Save the image as a Photoshop EPS and import it into the document Selecting options when printing There are few differences among office applications with regard to Fiery 3850C printing T he instructions in this chapter apply to all office applications Use the instructions in Chapter 1 to specify print options and color management settings To specify these options you must use a PostScript Level 2 or later printer driver such as an Adobe PostScript Printer D river Because office applications send RGB data to the Fiery 3850C your choices of RGB Source and Rendering Style settings are important Be sure to specify the appropriate CRD for the color effect you want see Rendering styles on page 1 4 Output profiles All color data in the job is affected by the output profile on the Fiery 3850C This profile may be the one designed for your printer and shipped with the Fiery 3850C or it may bea custom profile created at your site see page 1 6 If necessary print the Test Page to see which profile is currently resident on the Fiery 3850C Chapter 7 Adobe Photoshop 7 1 Specifying color settings This chapter covers features of Adobe Photoshop versions 6 x and 5 x for Windows and M ac OS The illustrations show only M ac OS dialog boxes but the information and instructions apply equally to the W indows version of Photoshop Specifying color settings
38. final print device Applications vary in the methods they provide for choosing colors and in the way they transmit color data to the print device e Office applications such as presentation software spreadsheets and word processing programs use the RGB color model T hey typically transmit only RGB data to the print device e Illustration applications use both the RGB and CM YK color modes but typically transmit only CM YK data to the print device Pixel editing applications use both the RGB and CM YK color modds T hey also transmit both RGB and CM YK data to the print device The type of printing you plan for the document short run color printing on the Fiery 3850C versus color proofing for eventual printing on an offset press determines the way you define colors in addition to the print option settings you choose e For short run color printing on the Fiery 3850C use any application and define colorsin either RGB or CMYK If your application supports it you can also choose colors from the PANTONE color library Placed images may be limited to the RGB color space Choose the appropriate settings for print options affecting color output see page 1 1 5 2 Working with Color in Applications For color proofing use an application that writes its own PostScript and define colorsin RGB CMYK or choose colors from the PAN TONE color library Placed images can also be defined in RGB or CM YK Choose the appropriate settings for
39. for printing The properties of color This section introduces concepts that are basic to color theory You will encounter some of these concepts such as hue saturation and brightness when you work with color in applications others provide useful background information Color isa complex topic so condder thisa darting point for experimentation and further research The physics of color The human eye can see electromagnetic radiation at wavelengths between 400 nanometers purplish blue and 700 nanometers red T his range is called the visible spectrum of light We see pure spectral light as intensely saturated or pure colors Sunlight at midday which we perceive as white or neutral light is composed of light from across the visible spectrum in more or less equal proportions Shining sunlight through a prism separates it into its spectral components resulting in the familiar rainbow of colors color example 1 A 2 Desktop Color Primer Like the sun most light sources we encounter in our daily environment emit a mixture of light wavelengths although the particular distribution of wavelengths can vary considerably Light from a tungsten light bulb for example contains much less blue light than sunlight Tungsten light appears white to the human eye which up to a point can adjust to the different light sources H owever color objects appear different under tungsten light than they do in sunlight because of the different spectra
40. he default output profile consists of both a profile for your printer describing its color characteristics and a calibration target that describes the expected behavior of the printer at a particular print resolution 600x600 dpi or 1200x1200 dpi In certain cases you may want to customize the default output profile using the ColorW ise Pro Tools Color Editor to achieve particular color effects see page 4 11 If you do so the new customized output profile is applied to all data in the print job 1 7 Managing color on the Fiery 3850C Changing the output profile only does not affect its associated calibration target since the target is based on a printer model You can edit D M ax values of the calibration target separately see page 4 6 You can use the C olorW ise Pro Tools Profile M anager to download your own output profileto the Fiery 3850C see page 4 5 Downloaded output profiles are at first associated with the calibration target tied to the default output profile You can edit calibration target D M ax values separately Pure Black Text Graphics The Pure Black Text G raphics option affects the printout for black text and vector graphics on a page Under most circumstances you can leave this option set to On W hen Pure Black Text Graphics is on black colors generated by applications are printed using 100 percent black only toner for example RGB 0 0 0 CMYK 0 0 0 100 or K 100 T his means the black text
41. in the Print Document dialog box Print Document T Collate A PPD l Choose the Fiery 3850C PPD ZP Revere cms Copies T Proof S eae Docomen All Print Both Pages F Paper C Ranges zn I Reader s spreads Options Click Options TF Ignore Non Printing setting T Print blank pages Color P M Book Orientation Features Je Ein all publications in book J Use paper settings oeach publication W Reset 2 Click Options 3 Choose Normal from the Send image data menu in the Print Options dialog box and click Features To ensuretha TIFF images print at their full resolution do not choose the O ptimized Subsampling default from the Send image data menu 8 6 Page Layout Applications 4 If a document contains RGB placed images or colors defined in RGB that will not be separated to process colors choose RGB Source and Rendering Style settings in the Print Features dialog box If the document contains PANTONE colors choose the appropriate Spot Color Matching setting Port Frotees Fesderieg Sv Pantera daiak Toka Mica CHIE Eiradsiyw AEI Simie Click Print from any of the PageMaker dialog boxes to send the job to the Fiery 3850C Note The printer driver dialog boxes described in Chapter 1 do not appear Optional Color Management from PageMaker If you have additional color management requirements not offered by C olorW ise
42. options see your FreeH and documentation Saving files for importing into other documents When saving files in FreeH and 8 x for importing into other types of documents use the EPS file format FreeH and saves all color information in CM YK TheRGB Source and Rendering Style print options have no effect on the color output of RGB artwork saved in FreeH and 8 x and imported into other types of documents In the case of FreeH and files imported into Photoshop however vector data from the FreeH and file is rasterized into bitmaps in Photoshop and the final color space of the bitmap data is determined by the color mode you set in Photoshop Optional color management in FreeHand If you have additional color management requirements not offered by C olorW ise such as managing color on devices not controlled by the Fiery 3850C you may want to consider using the FreeH and color management features For more information see your FreeH and documentation CorelDRAW for Windows and Mac OS Defining colors Any colors defined in CorelD RAW 9 x for Windows or Cora D RAW 8 x for MacOS are sent to the printer in CM YK even those defined using other color models For the best results use the color definition methods described in Choosing colors in PostScript applications on page 5 5 You can control the conversion of RGB colors defined in CorelD RAW by specifying settings in the Color M anagenent dialog boxes O n Windows machines the C
43. printing a color model used in the printing of colors in four color process printing color channel A single color image that can be edited separately from the other color channels comprising a color space for example the red channel of an RGB image color gamut See gamut G 2 Glossary color management system CMS System used to match color across different input display and output devices color rendering dictionary SeeCRD color rendering dictionary color separation T he process of separating a color image into the color components for printing cyan magenta yellow and black Also used to refer to the four sheets of film that result from the process of separating a color image color space A model for representing color in terms of measurable values such asthe amount of red green and blue in an image RGB and CM YK color spaces correspond to color devices monitors and printers respectively O ther color spaces such as CIE Lab are based on mathematical mode s and are device independent T hey are not based on the color response of a particular device See gamut colorant An ink dye toner paint or other pigment that modifies the color of media to which it is applied ColorWise color management Fiery 3850C ICC open color management solution which is an easy to use system that addresses the needs of both casual and experienced color management users composite printer Any
44. settings and calibration options from C olorW ise Pro Tools T hese options include default Simulation Profile see page 1 6 Appear in D river as see page 4 8 default Source Profile see page 1 5 and associated calibration set see page 3 4 The table below illustrates the print options in the Fiery 3850C color management process that affect color data conversions You access these print options when you send a print job to the Fiery 3850C M ost of these options and settings are described in subsequent sections of this chapter 1 2 Fiery 3850C Color Management RGB Source Profile is the only color option that applies strictly to RGB color data The other options that affect RGB color also affect the more rarely used Lab XYZ and other calibrated color spaces Note For users who are familiar with PostScript 3 0 color RGB Source Profile affects all CIEBasedABC color spaces if the source space is RGB If you send CM YK data to the Fiery 3850C in CIEBasedD EFG format for example by choosing PostScript Color M anagement in Adobe Photoshop the Fiery 3850C Rendering Style selection which normally affects only RGB data will also affect this CM YK data You can specify settings for the following options via print options when you send a job to the Fiery 3850C T he administrator can also set some settings as defaults during Fiery 3850C Setup Settings specified via print options override the defaults For information about the de
45. space B 3 CMY color model 5 3 CMYK Color Reference 5 2 5 6 CMYK Simulation Profileoption 1 3 1 6 color accent color A 7 additive model A 3 calibration 3 5 choosing in applications 5 1 CMY model 5 3 complements A 7 controlling printing results B 1 conversion by color management systems B 4 custom color systems 5 5 defining in applications 5 1 HSB model 5 5 A 3 HSL model 5 3 5 5 HSV model 5 3 illustration applications 9 1 physics of A 1 process colors A 6 proofing examples 2 13 properties of A 1 reference pages 5 2 RGB modd 5 3 5 5 setting default print options 4 19 Index split complements A 7 spot colors 5 5 A 6 subtractive model A 3 A 4 subtractive primaries A 4 swatch color matching 5 6 text A 8 theory A 1 triads A 7 using effectively A 6 to A 8 wheel A 7 working with 5 1 colorants A 4 Color Charts 3 4 Colorimetric ICC rendering style 1 4 color management basics B 3 to B 4 ColorWise 1 1 to 1 10 2 2 color management print options for Windows 98 Me 1 13 color management system CMS xiv B 3 color matching systems see custom color systems color monitors see monitors Color Reference pages 3 4 color rendering styles see rendering styles color space A 2 ColorSync B 3 color theory A 1 color wheel A 7 ColorWise B 3 key features xiv 4 19 ColorWise Pro Tools calibration from 3 2 checking calibration status 3 5 overview 3 16 3 29 to 3 36 Commission Internationale de Eclairage se CIE Comparison Page
46. system or monitor in color computer graphics simulation profile The simulation profile describes the color characteristics of another print device such as a printing press that you want the Fiery 3850C to simulate solid color rendering A color rendering style intended for use when color accuracy is crucial Unprintable colors are mapped to the closest printable colors Solid color rendering does the best job of preserving the saturation of displayed colors source color space T he color environment of the originating source of an image including scanners and color monitors source profile A profile used by the color management sytem to determinethe characteristics of the color values specified in a source digital image spectral light T he wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation emitted by a given light source that can be seen by the human eye G 7 Glossary spot color A color that is printed on its own separation plate when separations are specified A spot color is printed using a custom ink for that color in contrast to process colors that are printed using combinations of cyan magenta yellow and black Status T A spectral response for graphic arts reflection densitometers defined by ANSI the American N ational Standards Institute subtractive color model A system in which color is produced by combining colorants such as paint inks or dyes on media such as paper or transparent film or ac
47. the Engine menu to use the built in color management engine for Photoshop Choose a rendering intent from the Intent menu that will optimize the color quality of the conversion For guidelines on choosing the rendering intent see your Photoshop 6 x documentation Select the Use Black Point Compensation option to optimize the quality of color conversions 6 Click Save to save the current group of color settings The Save dialog box appears 7 Name the settings file accept the default saved location and click Save You can switch to your saved settings at any time by choosing the group namefrom the Settings menu at the top of the C olor Settings dialog box 9 6 Illustration Applications Illustrator 8 x color settings If you are using C olorW ise color management disable the Illustrator 8 x color management system by removing the Color Conversion and Color Conversion Utilities files from the Adobe I Illustrator gt Plug ins gt E xtensions folder Consider the following points when working in Illustrator 8 x e Any colors defined in Illustrator are sent to the printer in CM YK even those defined using other color models For best results use the color definition methods described on page 5 5 e All RGB images placed in a document are affected by the RGB Source and Rendering Style settings you select in the PPD For best results with placed images use the instructions in Importing images on page 9 2 and CM YK s
48. to emulate DIC Euroscale and SWOP offset press standards e Match PANTONE colors for the best match when printing using four color press conditions or when printing using presses with extra custom plates e Select a color rendering dictionary CRD also called a rendering style for RGB printing CRD s allow for rich saturated printing of presentation graphics smooth accurate printing of photographs and relative or absolute colorimetric rendering for specialized needs Define the source of incoming RGB color data for better screen matching and better color conversion of RGB data with no source information ColorWise offers an open color architecture letting users customize the Fiery 3850C to meet new printing needs as they arise ColorW ise supports ICC profiles which are industry standard color profiles that define the color behavior of a device Downloading ICC profilesto the Fiery 3850C eablesit to simulate a custom press or another printer as well as accurately print colors from a particular monitor or a scanner In addition you can create customized ICC profiles for the printer ColorW ise also lets you use any StatusT densitometer by importing datain a standard file format see Appendix C In this case it isimportant to note that the quality of the instrument used will determine the quality of the calibration Chapter 1 Fiery 3850C Color Management 1 1 Managing color on the Fiery 3850C The first part of this chapte
49. were supplied in the Lab color space and as a result to be processed by CRD s rather than your simulation settings Include ICC color information in files C olorW ise does not conflict with this information and such data is useful for identifying the specific color space used by your files Do not include halftone and transfer functions Turn off color management in the printer driver On Windows computers if the printer driver offers Image Color M atching options select Printer Image Color M atching On M ac OS computers set the printer driver to include no color management commands at print time see page 1 16 Advanced workflows T he following sections present advanced color management workflow examples for three short run printing and three color proofing situations Each workflow example consists of a brief description steps for creating and manipulating the files alist of the ColorW ise settings used in the example and a table that summarizes the workflow Note T hese examples reference specific software applications to illustrate image editing illustration page layout and business office applications they are Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator QuarkXPress and M icrosoft PowerPoint respectively Short run printing examples The following examples illustrate short run printing on the Fiery 3850C Photoshop RGB workflow This short run workflow of printing an RGB image from Photoshop is one of the simplest
50. you can quickly measure color patches generated by the printer and automatically download these measurements to the Fiery 3850C Changing the calibration has the potential to affect all jobs for all users so you may want to limit the number of people authorized to perform calibration You can set an Administrator password from the Fiery 3850C Control Pane to control access to calibration Multiple users can connect to one Fiery 3850C server with C olorW ise Pro Tools but only one user at atime can use the Calibrator module An error message appears if you try to calibrate when another user is already using C olorW ise Pro Tools to calibrate Note Before using C olorW ise Pro Toolsand the DT P41 to calibrate the Fiery 3850C follow the instructions on page 3 28 for calibrating the D T P41 spectrophotometer TO CALIBRATE THE FIERY 3850C USING THE DTP41 1 2 Launch ColorWise Pro Tools and connect to the Fiery 3850C GB Colorwise Pro Tools Aero_device ane Calibrator Color Editor Profile Manager Color Setup For instructions on configuring the connection to the Fiery 3850C see Getting Started Note If the connection to the Fiery 3850C from Command WorkStation that also allows for access to C olorW ise Pro Tools is not established you can directly launch ColorW ise Pro Tools independently of Command WorkStation Click Calibrator 3 18 Color Calibration 3 Select DTP41 as the measurement method X R
51. 0 Transfer Unad justed 7 iMisible foreground layers Split PPD name appears at right Scale Fitonpaper v e OE T Otile Manual Mont io Ai i O Selected objects only H Color Management A 2 Choose Normal from the Print setting menu e IftheUsePPD option is selected a plus sign appears in front of the word Normal e If the PPD name for your Fiery 3850C is not displayed click the button labeled and choose the appropriate PPD from the menu that appears 3 To use ColorWise color management features clear the Convert RGB to process option in the File gt Output Options dialog box If this option is selected FreeH and color management settings are used to convert RGB colors and RGB TIFF PICT and JPEG imagesto CM YK Output Options Objects 1 Include invisible layers EJ Split complex paths Images O Include OPI comments 7 Convert RGB to process Clear option to use ColorWise color management Default w Maximum color steps Default l Flatness 9 12 4 Illustration Applications If a document contains placed RGB images choose RGB Source and Rendering Style settings in the PPD With the exception of placed RGB images these settings have no effect on colors printed with FreeH and If the document contains PAN TO NE named colors choose the appropriate Spot Color M atching setting in the PPD For information about other FreeH and print
52. 0C profile to your workstation in order to use it with an 1C C aware application such as Photoshop Profile M anager also lets you delete unwanted profiles Note You can back up and delete only those profiles that appear in the main Profile M anager window without a lock icon next to them Locked profiles cannot be deleted but most can be backed up To BACK UP PROFILES 1 2 Launch ColorWise Pro Tools and click Profile Manager Select the profile on the Fiery 3850C to upload T he arrow in the middle of the Profile M anager window turns green and points to the left indicating the profile is available for upload Click the green arrow choose a name and location for the profile and click Save The name will be the file name of the profile but the profile description will be the original description or the one you entered in the Profile Settings dialog box Note When saving the profile on a Windows computer be sure to include the extension icm If the extension is not included additional dialog boxes appear Click OK when you are notified that the profile was successfully uploaded D eee profiles to make sure no one uses the wrong profile and to free up disk space on the Fiery 3850C although profiles are small and do not take up much space TO DELETE PROFILES FROM THE FIERY 3850C HARD DISK 1 2 Launch ColorWise Pro Tools and click Profile Manager Select the profile you want to delete and click Delete A
53. 3850C g5 Colorwise Pro Tools Aero_device Color Editor Profile Manager Color Setup For instructions on configuring the connection to the Fiery 3850C see Gating Started Note If the connection to the Fiery 3850C from Command WorkStation that also allows for access to C olorW ise Pro Tools is not established you can directly launch ColorW ise Pro Tools independently of Command WorkStation Click Calibrator 3 13 Using a spectrophotometer 4 Select DTP41 as the measurement method X Rite DT P41 should appear as a measurement method T his information is provided to Calibrator by the Fiery 3850C If this option does not appear make sure you are connected to the Fiery 3850C a Calibrator Aero ol x Standard Expert 1 Select Measurement Method 2 Check Print Settings Calibration Set Resolution 600x600 dpi x Calibrated 4 11 02 12 00 00 PM By User Default Method Default 3 Generate Measurement Page 4 Get Measurements Measure From File Restore Device Done 5 Under Get Measurements click Measure 6 In the Measurement Options dialog box click Measure Measurement Options xi Page Type 34 Sorted Patches Paper Size 11217743 x Measure Cancel 7 Select the appropriate COM port for the DTP41 from the Available Ports menu 3 14 Color Calibration The Instructions field displays instructions for selecting the port Star
54. 3850C CRD ss To use the source color space information from the embedded profile with Fiery 3850C CRD s choose N one as the Fiery 3850C RGB Source when you print This applies when you print directly from Photoshop or when the sameRGB EPS fileis output from another application To override the embedded profilein an EPS fileusing an RGB Source definition made available by the Fiery 3850C choose anything except N one as the Fiery 3850C RGB Source Profile Printing CMYK EPS files saved with PostScript Color Management If you select the Photoshop PostScript Color M anagement option when you savea CM YK EPS image Photoshop embeds PostScript color information that defines the CM YK source color space of the image When you print a CM YK EPS file that contains PostScript color information to the Fiery 3850C CRD s are used instead of ColorW iseCM YK Simulation setting M ake sure to choose the appropriate setting for the Rendering Style option Selecting options when printing You can print RGB or CM YK images from Photoshop e When you print an RGB image you choose whether the conversion to CM YK is performed by the Fiery 3850C usinga CRD by PostScript using PostScript C olor Management or by the Photoshop built in color management engine by choosing an O utput profile from the Space menu e When you printa CM YK image you can print composites or color separations Note You cannot use the Combine Separations feature of the Fiery 3850
55. 50C from Command WorkStation that also allows for access to C olorW ise Pro Tools is not established you can directly launch ColorW ise Pro Tools independently of Command WorkStation 3 30 Color Calibration 2 Click Calibrator 3 Select a measurement method X Rite DT P32 X RiteDT P41 and EFI Densitometer ED 100 appear as the measurement methods If none of these options appears make sure you are connected to the Fiery 3850C gt Calibrator Aero olx Standard Expert 1 Select Measurement Method 2 Check Print Settings Calibration Set Resolution 600x600 dpi E Calibrated 4 11 02 12 00 00 PM By User Default Method Default 3 Generate Measurement Page Print 4 Get Measurements Measure From File Restore Device Apply Done 4 Under Check Print Settings choose the desired calibration set If there is more than one option choose the appropriate calibration set for the print resolution you use most often Note For thiscalibration to take effect the calibration set must be associated with one or more output profiles T he default calibration set is already associated with the default output profile so there is no need to make any new associations 5 Under Generate Measurement Page click Print 3 31 Calibrating with ColorWise Pro Tools and DTP32 ED 100 6 10 In the Print Options dialog box choose the Page Type Paper Size and Input Tray to use
56. 8 00 2 58 32 PM Done DIC new will appear in driver as Simulation 1 Simulation 1 now appears under the Appear in D river as column for D IC new Choosing Simulation 1 from the CM YK Simulation option of the printer driver applies the D IC new simulation to the print job If you do not define a custom simulation profile your job will print with CM YK Simulation Profile set to N one If you do not define a custom RGB Source or O utput profile the default profile is used 4 11 Color Editor Color Editor Color Editor allows you to customize simulation and output profiles You can access Color Editor directly by clicking its icon in the C olorW ise Pro Tools main window or indirectly through the Profile M anager Editing profiles Color Editor allows you to create custom profiles by editing existing simulation or output profiles and saving the changes as a new profile With Color Editor you can fine tune a profile on your Fiery 3850C to meet your exact specifications Note You cannot edit source profiles only simulation and output profiles can be customized Color Editor has two Edit M odes for editing output profiles Custom Edit output profiles and save customized versions of them Density View the calibration target which is one component of the output profile You cannot make changes to the calibration target in this window but you can import a new target see page 3 2 Color Edit
57. 96 Provided as part of the documentation for X Rite densitometers P N XRC 550 World Wide Web sites International Color Consortium www color org Graphic Arts Technical Foundation www gatf org Seybold Seminars O nline www seyboldseminars com Adobe Systems I ncorporated www adobe com Magazines Adobe M agazine Seattle Adobe Systems Incorporated Publish San Francisco Integrated M edia Inc Numerics 8 pin DIN plug 3 10 3 27 A Absolute Colorimetric 1 4 accent color A 7 additive color model A 3 additive primaries A 3 Adobe Illustrator see Illustrator Adobe PageM aker see PageM aker Adobe Photoshop see Photoshop Adobe PostScript Printer D river MacOS 1 16 Apple Standard setting RGB Source option 1 5 B bit depth of raster images A 9 A 10 bitmaps A 5 ge also raster images Black Overprint option 1 3 1 8 black text 1 8 lineart 1 7 brightness A 1 A 3 C CALIB PS file 4 18 calibration checking status 3 5 color 3 5 COM1andCOM2 port 3 9 3 26 densitometer 3 8 to 3 11 3 25 to 3 28 from ColorW ise Pro Tools 3 2 from the Control Panel 3 2 3 17 3 29 importing measurements C 1 measurements 3 1 3 2 3 3 3 35 overview 3 1 to 3 5 scheduling 3 4 targets 3 1 3 2 3 3 VisualCal 3 7 see also densitometer C olorW ise Pro Tools see also spectrophotometer C olorW ise Pro Tools calibration patch page 3 3 charts using color in A 7 CIE chromaticity diagram A 2 A 3 color model A 2 CIELAB color
58. AW If the document contains PANTONE named colors choose the appropriate Spot Color M atching setting Saving files for importing into other documents When saving files in Cora D RAW for importing into other types of documents use the EPS file format CorelD RAW saves all color information in CM YK so RGB Source and Rendering Style print options have no effect on color output of artwork saved with CorelD RAW and imported into other kinds of documents In the case of Core D RAW files imported into Photoshop however vector data from the CorelD RAW file is rasterized into bitmaps in Photoshop and the final color space of the bitmap data is determined by the color mode you set in Photoshop Optional Color Management in CorelDRAW If you have additional color management requirements not offered by C olorW ise such as managing color on non Fiery 3850C devices consider using the CorelD RAW color management features For more information see your documentation Appendix A Desktop Color Primer A 1 Desktop Color Primer T his appendix covers concepts basic to printing in color including e Properties of color e Printing techniques e Using color effectively e Raster images and vector images Optimizing files for processing and printing If you are already familiar with color theory and digital color printing refer to the last section O ptimizing files for processing and printing on page A 10 for tips on optimizing files
59. C to recombine separations printed from Photoshop 7 14 Adobe Photoshop Printing RGB images Use the following instructions to print RGB images 8 7 2 104 Printer Aero_Print Destination Adobe Photoshop x Encoding Binary gt Space RGB Color gt Choose an encoding method 2 Choose RGB Color C Print Selected Area i PostScript Color Management as the color space Do not select PostScript Color Management Choose RGB Color from the Space pop up menu Any other setting causes Photoshop to convert image data to that color space before sending it to the Fiery 3850C With the AdobePS printer driver for M ac O S these options appear in the Adobe Photoshop pane of the Print dialog box Printing CMYK images Use the following instructions to print CM YK images 8 7 2 104 Printer Destination Adobe Photoshop Encoding Space CMYK Color O Print Selected Area O PostScript Color Management gt Choose an encoding method Choose CMYK Color as the color space N 7 15 Photoshop 5 x Choose CM YK Color from the Space pop up menu Any other setting causes Photoshop to convert image data to that color space before sending it to the Fiery 3850C With the AdobePS printer driver for M ac OS these options appear in the Adobe Photoshop pane of the Print dialog box Note If you choose PEG encoding save a backup of the original image wi
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61. Fiery 3850C color workflows RGB datais sent from the application through the printer driver to the Fiery 3850C and the RGB to CM YK conversion takes place 2 8 Simple and Advanced Workflows on the Fiery 3850C usingaCRD rather than the application Use the settings illustrated in this workflow for printing photographs and artwork This document could be created as follows e Create an RGB image in Photoshop e Print the file directly to the Fiery 3850C See Chapter 7 for recommended print settings from Photoshop e UseColorWise to convert the RGB image to printer CM YK or the full copier gamut The ColorW ise settings used in this example are e RGB Source Profile set to EFIRGB or another RGB source definition e Rendering Style set to Photographic The diagram below indicates the steps for this particular workflow in black Photoshop RGB workflow Photoshop Printer driver ColorWise print options Define RGB Source Color Grayscale Select Rendering Style CRD Select RGB Mode Select Output Profile Print 2 9 Advanced workflows Photoshop RGB with Illustrator and QuarkXPress CMYK and PANTONE colors This workflow involves short run printing of a complex page layout with images saved in Photoshop illustrations created in Illustrator and PANTONE spot colors A Photoshop image is saved in an RGB color space using the EPS file format Illustrator artwork contains objects defi
62. Fiery 3850C print options affect your job For example if the application converts RGB black defined in your document as R0 G0 BO to four color CM YK black when it sends the job to the Fiery 3850C the Pure Black Text Graphics option in the PPD will have no effect when you print the job You can also choose named colors from the PANTONE color library See page 5 6 9 2 Illustration Applications Importing images In general all images placed into illustration applications should bein EPS file format All RGB images placed in a document are affected by the RGB Source and Rendering Style settings in the PPD The Fiery 3850C color management systen applies the specified RGB Source setting to all RGB data and then uses the specified Rendering Style CRD to perform a color conversion to CM YK An exception to this occurs if you assign ICC profiles to RGB images using the application s color management tools see Tips for advanced users below In this case the application performs the color conversion of the image and sends CM YK data to the Fiery 3850C Tips for advanced users If you place multiple RGB images some non photographic and some photographic asingleCRD may not be suitable for all the images In this case you may want the photographic images to bypass the CRD altogether To accomplish this separate the image to CM YK data with a pixel editing application such as Photoshop and perform color correction Save the i
63. From the mage menu select Mode gt CM YK Color Save the image as Photoshop EPS e Print the image directly to the Fiery 3850C and choose Simulation 1 asthe CM YK Simulation Profile setting 2 16 Simple and Advanced Workflows T he ColorW ise settings used in this example are CMYK Simulation Profile set to Simulation 1 The diagram below indicates the steps for this particular workflow in black Photoshop5 x RGB to CMYK workflow p Photoshop 5 x Printer driver ColorWise print options Color Grayscale Convert RGB to CMYK Convert Press CMYK to Custom Sim Select Output Profile Save as EPS Print Chapter 3 Color Calibration 3 1 Introduction Calibrating the Fiery 3850C ensures consistent reliable color output You can calibrate the Fiery 3850C with ColorW ise Pro Tools using any of these instruments e X RiteD TP41 automatic scanning spectrophotometer page 3 7 e X Rite D TP32 automatic scanning densitometer page 3 25 e EFI ED 100 D ensitometer page 3 25 Each of these instruments must be purchased separately By connecting the instrument to the serial port on your computer you can quickly measure color patches and download measurements to the Fiery 3850C You can also obtain measurements from the printer s built in scanner and calibrate using VisualC al which does not require the use of a densitometer and can be run from ColorW ise Pro Tools VisualC al isrun from th
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65. K data An exception to this is an RGB image placed in the document which is sent directly to the Fiery 3850C unless you specify special color management settings in the application In addition some PostScript applications that allow you to define colorsin RGB or other color mode s can also send data to the Fiery 3850C in those color spaces Color controls in PostScript applications are typically designed for printing on an offset press and some adjustments are required for printing to the Fiery 3850C Displayed versions of colors you choose in these applications may not match Fiery 3850C output exactly and named colors may not print accurately on the Fiery 3850C since these colors typically require custom inks Choosing colors in PostScript applications With PostScript applications you can create colors using any of the color modas supported by the application All PostScript applications support CM YK some also support RGB and other color models based on monitor display values PostScript applications also allow you to choose named colors using one or more color libraries such as PANT ONE see page 5 6 You should use swatch color matching to ensure predictable color printing results with the Fiery 3850C or to match the Fiery 3850C color output to colors produced by other print devices 5 6 Working with Color in Applications Swatch color matching Fiery 3850C user software includes several color reference pages see page 5 2
66. M SVWYOP Coated EFI 2 9 99 4 14 12 PM Description SWOP Coated EFI E View Simulation 7 Cancel 3 Choose a profile to edit and click Select Note You can also open the Profile M anager select a profile and click Edit 4 13 Color Editor 4 Fora simulation profile choose Master from the Edit Mode menu For an output profile choose Custom from the Edit Mode menu k Fiery Color Editor DIC EFI Oy x Edit Mode Noe Edits in Master mode do not affect existing linked IMaster B 3 B e e Eye icons indicate cyan B magenta and yellow are s M visible and can be edited gt R gR Brightness a F ___DdetGain o cna DTH DoH DO wm Input Input Output Add Remove Test Print Import You can use this dialog box to view or edit profiles T he graph allows you to view and manipulate color output values Note When you edit an output profilein Custom mode the Import button at the bottom of the Color Editor window lets you import a calibration target file trg created on another Fiery using the previous version of C olorW ise The current version of ColorW ise does not allow you to save a target separately rather it saves the target in conjunction with an output profile 4 14 ColorWise Pro Tools 5 6 Select the colors you want to edit by turning colors off and on T he box with the eye icon to the left of each c
67. Measurement Method 2 Check Print Settings Calibration Set Resolution 600x600 dpi x Calibrated 4 11 02 12 00 00 PM By User Default Method Default 3 Generate Measurement Page 4 Get Measurements Measure From File Click Restore Device I Restore Device Apply Done 3 Click OK to restore the preset default calibration set print resolution setting Warning You are about to restore the default calibration for current Calibration Set Note Restore device applies only to the currently selected calibration set 3 25 Using a densitometer Using a densitometer ColorW ise Pro Tools are designed to work with the EFI D ensitometer 100 and the X Rite DT P32 both of which are reflection densitometers which feed color measurements to the Fiery 3850C automatically Note M easurements from other densitometers can be input using a simple ASCII file format see page C 1 Setting up the ED 100 densitometer To use the ED 100 for calibration purposes you must first set it up for use with your computer For complete instructions on setting up the ED 100 seethe documentation that isincluded with the instrument The following illustration shows the different components of the ED 100 Indicator light Measure button Sample aperture underneath Setting up the X Rite DTP32 densitometer Before you calibrate the Fiery 3850C using the X Rite DT
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69. PostScript images that include independent source color space information T his feature is sometimes referred to as PostScript Level 2 tagging or RGB tagging You define the source color space to apply to RG B EPS images by specifying aM onitor Setup in Photoshop H owever this Photoshop specific source color space definition is overridden by the RGB Source print option setting located in the Print dialog box under Printer Specific O ptions unless you set the latter to O ff see page 1 5 Defining colors You can choose colorsin Photoshop with various color modds including H SB CIE Lab RGB and CMYK You can also choose named colors from the PAN TONE color library in Photoshop For best results use the color definition methods described in Chapter 5 Saving files for importing into other documents Before saving an RGB EPS file check the Photoshop M onitor Setup T his setting defines the RGB source color space information that will be included in the RGB EPS image You can override this source color space with the RGB Source setting in the Print dialog box under Printer Specific O ptions see page 1 5 Before saving afile perform any rotating cropping and resizing needed T his speeds processing when printing from the application in which the image is placed 7 18 Adobe Photoshop We recommend you use the EPS or TIFF file formats to save RGB images that will be imported into other documents and printed to the Fier
70. PostScript RGB data that contains a source color space definition is converted using theCRD specified by the Rendering Style option see page 1 4 Non PostScript RGB data and PostScript RGB data that does not contain a source color space definition is converted using a general undercolor removal conversion method CMYK Simulation Profile TheCM YK Simulation Profile print option allows you to print press proofs or simulations This option specifies the offset press standard or other color printing device you want to simulate T his option affects CM YK data only The number of custom simulations is limited by the disk space on the Fiery 3850C TheCMYK Simulation Profile setting you specify depends on the press standard for which the CM YK data was separated e For images separated using a custom separation such as a separation produced with an ICC profile choose the corresponding profile on the Fiery 3850C with the CM YK Simulation Profile setting For images separated for SWO P choose SW OP asthe CM YK Simulation Profile setting Note To properly simulate a printed image that was separated through the use of an ICC profile the same profile must be present on the Fiery 3850C For more information about downloading ICC profiles to the Fiery 3850C see D ownloading profiles on page 4 5 Output profile The output profile is applied to all data in the print job so make sure the selected profileisthe right one for your job T
71. Warning dialog box asks you to confirm deletion Note You cannot delete preset profiles profiles that are currently set as default or profiles that are linked to any of the predefined custom names for example Simulation 1 4 8 ColorWise Pro Tools 3 Click Yes to delete the profile If you want to delete a profile currently set as the default or associated with a custom name click Profile Settings and clear the default option Defining profiles Before you can apply any downloaded or edited profile to a print job that profile must be linked to one of the predefined custom names or you can set the profile as the default for all print jobs see setting default profiles page 4 3 There are 10 names available for custom profiles Source 1 through 10 for RGB Source Simulation 1 through Simulation 10 for Simulation or O utput 1 through O utput 10 for O utput Note A custom simulation profile is used to illustrate this procedure The same steps apply for defining custom or downloaded output profiles TO DEFINE A PROFILE 1 Launch ColorWise Pro Tools and click Profile Manager IE Fiery Profile Manager Aero Jo x Browse CAWINNT System32 Color lt Delete Edit Profile Settings Dece B Description _Appear in Driver as E Apple Standard Apple Standard B A sRGB PC sRGB PC EFIRGE EFIRGE B Description Appear in Driver as DIC EFI DIC iB Euroscale EFI Euroscale
72. XPress 4 02 and Q uarkX Press 3 32 Before printing from these applications make sure the appropriate printer driver and the Fiery 3850C PPD are installed on your computer as described in Getting Started Working with page layout applications The following sections apply to all page layout applications Defining colors Page layout applications generally use the CM YK color modd Some allow you to define colors with other color models and may be able to send that data to the Fiery 3850C in those other color models H owever CRD s which affect only RGB data usually do not affect colors defined in page layout applications For predictable results with CM YK colors usethe CM YK Color Reference when defining colors in page layout applications See Choosing colors in PostScript applications on page 5 5 Note If the application allows you to define colorsin RGB you should determine whether it converts the RGB datato CM YK before sending it to the Fiery 3850C If it does this will determine which Fiery 3850C print options affect your job For example if the application converts RGB black defined in the document as R0 G0 B0 to four color CM YK black when it sends the job to the Fiery 3850C the Pure Black Text Graphics option will have no effect when you print the job You can also choose named colors from the PANT ONE color library See PANTONE Coated Color Reference on page 5 6 8 2 Page Layout Applications Impo
73. achieve the best results No matter what your goals are two factors always impact color print output print device consistency and the range of colors the device can print known as its gamut T hese concepts are covered briefly in this chapter Creating successful color documents and presentations also requires an understanding of color management software as it is implemented by the Fiery 3850C and on your desktop computer M ost of this chapter is devoted to discussing the various dements of color management that contribute to predictable color results B 2 Color Management Maintaining printer consistency The factors described below affect print device consistency as well as color fidelity and overall output quality Paper stock and toner The paper and toner used by your printer can affect printed color For best results use the supplies recommended by the manufacturer of the printer Maintenance Problems such as streaking and insufficient or excessive amounts of one or more toners arise when a printer does not receive periodic maintenance or needs major repairs In addition to having it serviced regularly monitor the condition of your printer by making standard test prints at regular intervals You can do this easily by printing the Fiery 3850C Test Page Save the prints and show them to the service technician whenever output densities vary from the norm or other problems appear Print device gamut Different color reprod
74. ample an image in Photoshop 5 x is converted from RGB to CMYK using the Photoshop ICC color conversion featuresin the CM YK Setup option For more information on CM YK Setup see your Photoshop 5 x documentation Using the Simulation settings available in ColorW ise theCM YK imageis printed to the Fiery 3850C and the output is made to appear as if it were printed on an offset press This document could be created as follows e In Photoshop 5 x st CM YK M odel in CM YK Setup to ICC e In the Profile menu select an ICC profile for the desired offset press Click OK e Open an RGB image From the mage pull down menu select M ode gt CM YK Color e Save the image in any file format e Print directly to the Fiery 3850C e UseColorW ise Pro Tools to select a simulation profile or download a custom ICC profile to the Fiery 3850C for useasaCM YK Simulation Profile 2 14 Simple and Advanced Workflows The ColorW ise settings used in this example are e CMYK Simulation Profile set to the desired press standard or to the corresponding custom simulation Simulation 1 10 if you downloaded your profile with ColorW ise Pro Tools The diagram below indicates the steps for this particular workflow in black Photoshop RGB to CMYK workflow using ICC profile 2 Photoshop 5 x Printer driver ColorWise print options Define RGB Source Color Grayscale Convert RGB to CMYK Convert Press CMYK t
75. and Advanced Workflows The ColorW ise settings used in this example are e RGB Source Profile set to EFIRGB or another RGB source definition e Rendering Style set to Presentation CMYK Simulation set to None e Spot Color M atching set to On The diagram below indicates the steps for this particular workflow in black Photoshop RGB and Illustrator CMYK and PANTONE in PowerPoint RGB workflow ee Photoshop Illustrator PowerPoint Printer driver Colormise print options Define RGB Source Define CMYK Colors Print Color Grayscale Select Rendering Style CRD Define PANTONE colors Select RGB Mode Select Copier CMYK Simulation None Turn Spot Color Matching On Select Output Profile Save as EPS Save as EPS 2 13 Advanced workflows Color proofing examples T he following examples illustrate methods for simulating the output from another printing system such as an offset press Each of the proofing examples uses an ICC profile to describe the destination color space W hile some examples use simulation profiles built into the Fiery 3850C others use C olorW ise Pro Tools see Chapter 4 to download custom ICC output profiles to the Fiery 3850C for use as simulation profiles Photoshop 5 x RGB to CMYK conversion using a custom ICC profile This workflow is useful for prepress environments that have integrated ICC color management and have profiles for the presses they use In this ex
76. aphical design but it is an effect you should use with discretion since it can be visually fatiguing O ther bold combinations to consider are split complements a color and the two colors adjacent to its complement color example 9b and triads three colors evenly spaced on the color wheel color example 9c C olors adjacent to one another on the color wheel result in subtle harmonies The color whee simplifies color relationships for the purpose of clarity showing only saturated or pure colors Adding the myriad variations of each hue to the palette more or less saturated darker or lighter creates a wealth of possibilities Taking a pair of complements from the color wheel and varying the saturation and brightness of one or both colors produces a very different result from the pure complenents Combining a light tint of a warm color with a darker shade of its cooler complement often gives pleasing results Combining a darker shade of a warm color with a light tint of its cooler complement produces an unusual effect you may like A 8 Desktop Color Primer Once you have mastered the concept of the color wheel you have a good framework for experimenting with color combinations M any books targeted at graphic designers show groups of preselected color combinations Some are organized by themes or moods and some are based on a custom color system such as PAN TON E T he more you develop acritical facility for judging color combinations the mor
77. ation results O ne or more output profiles and one or more calibration sets are provided with the Fiery 3850C W hen you calibrate the Fiery 3850C you can select the calibration set that corresponds to the typical printing jobs at your site T his same calibration set can be associated with one or more output profiles For more information on output profiles see page 1 6 Scheduling calibration In general you should calibrate the Fiery 3850C at least once a day depending on the volume of print jobs If it is very important to maintain consistent color or if the printer is subject to wide fluctuations in temperature or humidity calibrate every few hours To get the best performance calibrate whenever there is a noticeable change in print quality If you need to split a print job into two or more batches to be printed at different times it is especially important to calibrate before printing each batch You should also calibrate the Fiery 3850C after printer maintenance H owever because the printer may be less stable immediately after maintenance wait until you have printed approximately 50 pages before you calibrate Note Since printed output from the printer is very sensitive to changes in temperature and humidity the printer should not be installed near a window in direct sunlight or near a heater or air conditioner Paper is sensitive to climate changes as well It should be stored in a cool dry stable environment and reams s
78. boxes control how color is managed when you open and save RGB and CM YK images You 7 5 Photoshop 5 x should calibrate your monitor using the Adobe Gamma control panel and specify settings in the Photoshop s Profile Setup RGB Setup and CM YK Setup dialog boxes before you begin working with images in Photoshop Note The Adobe Gamma control panel performs similar functions on both Windows and M ac OS computers Adobe Gamma control panel You can use the Adobe Gamma control panel to create and customize ICC profiles for your monitor Photoshop properly displays images on your monitor by compensating between your chosen working space see the following section on RGB Setup and the description of your monitor defined by its profile If you do not create a profile in the Adobe Gamma control pand that corresponds to your monitor you may encounter poor monitor to print matching Note If a profile for your particular monitor is not available use the Adobe Gamma control panel setup Assistant Wizard on Windows to customize an available profile that at least has the same type of phosphors as your monitor 7 6 Adobe Photoshop Display the Adobe G amma control pana by double clicking its icon in either the Windows or M ac OS Control Panel If you have not yet selected your monitor profile or want to customize your current profile click the Assistant Wizard on W indows button O SS adobe Gamma SS H ICC Profile My Monitor B
79. bration With the View M easurements option you can view the current set of measurements as a table or as a graph that shows both the measurements and the target curves Measurements vs Target Oo x View m M Measurements M Target a ai Meas Tag a D Max D Max a Cl Inss Fras A 5 Magenta D Max D Max x fe na rss i a D Max D Max 8 cm ios foss S gt ia H Aa i D Max D Max ooaaaoaanaa na a m emis fis hpt Target Profle profile name Curves Output profile name appears here Test Print Import Select Profile W hen more than one profile use the same target an additional menu called Plot Against appears in the upper right of the window above It lists all output profiles that use the same calibration set Selecting an output profile from this menu displays the target curves associated with that profile If each output profile contains a unique calibration target when you switch profiles the curves displayed also change Chapter 4 ColorWise Pro Tools 4 1 Profile Manager ColorW ise Pro Tools include the following color management tools that give you flexible control of color printing Calibrator see Chapter 3 e Color Editor e Profile M anager e Color Setup 6B Colorwise Pro Tools Aero_device ro Calibrator Color Editor Profile Manager Color Setup ColorW ise Pro Tools for Windows and M ac O S computers are fundamentally the same differen
80. ce Print Options window for DTP41 calibration method Rene tie DTP41LONGSORT z Paper Size 1117 43 E Input Tray Autos elect kd 7 Retrieve the measurement page from the printer 8 Under Get Measurements click Measure The selected Page Type and Paper Size options appear 9 Click Measure Page Type DTP41LONGSORT z Paper Size 11x17 43 x Cancel 10 If necessary select the appropriate COM port for the DTP41 from the Available Ports pop up menu 3 20 Color Calibration The Instructions field displays instructions for selecting the port Start X Rite DTP 41 Instructions 11 xl m Instructions r Patch Info Select the port that DTP 41 is connected to and DTP41LONGSORT press Start Measurements to scan the patch page 11x174A3 Available Ports coM1 Start Measurements Utilities Feed the measurement page into the DTP41 starting with the cyan strip Align the page in the measurement page slot of the DT P41 so the appropriate color column is centered below the alignment mark see the diagram on page 3 8 Insert the page about 3 inches past the front idler rollers until it rests against the rear drive rollers 3 21 Calibrating with ColorWise Pro Tools and DTP41 12 Click Read Strip TheDTP41 pulls the measurement page through automatically Measurements X Rite DTP 41 x Instructions Measure the cyan strip Positi
81. ces are noted in this chapter T he windows and dialog boxes illustrated are the W indows version For information on installing and configuring a connection to ColorW ise Pro Tools see Getting Started Note If the connection to the Fiery 3850C from Command WorkStation that also allows for access to C olorW ise Pro Tools is not established you can directly launch ColorW ise Pro Tools independently of Command WorkStation Profile Manager Profile M anager allows you to manage and edit ICC profiles In the case of the Fiery 3850C these profiles are divided into RGB Source Simulation and Output profiles RGB Source contains all monitor profiles resident on the Fiery 3850C RGB Source profiles define the source color space for RGB colors processed by the Fiery 3850C Note If you use Photoshop 5 x 6 0 you can upload the profile for your selected working space to the Fiery 3850C and choose that as your RGB Source profile 4 2 ColorWise Pro Tools e Simulation contains printer profiles used to simulate another device on the Fiery 3850C Output contains printer profiles that describe the attached printer For more information on output profiles see page 1 6 Note Changing the Fiery 3850C default profiles affects all jobs for all users so you might want to limit the number of people authorized to use C olorW ise Pro Tools by setting an Administrator password Several profiles are provided with the Fiery 3850C and you can create
82. clude Transfer Function L O PostScript Color Management Note If you chooseJPEG encoding save a backup of the original image saved with binary encoding until you see the printed results of the JPEG file Occasionally the compression used for JPEG encoding produces unwanted artifacts If you see unexpected results in the printed output of a JPEG file revert to a binary version If you experience problems printing the document in which you place the image substitute an ASCII version of the same image and print the document again Binary encoding is much more compact than ASCII encoding but occasionally causes printing problems with some system configurations Advanced tips for using PostScript color management Usethe following information to implement alternate more complex color workflows with Photoshop Saving EPS Documents with PostScript Color Management Selecting the PostScript Color M anagenent option when saving either a CM YK or RGB EPS file prompts Photoshop to enbed PostScript color information which is independent of ICC profiles in the resulting document T hisinformation is intended for PostScript devices like the Fiery 3850C 7 13 Photoshop 5 x Printing RGB EPS Files Saved with PostScript Color Management W hen you print an RGB EPS file that contains an embedded profile to the Fiery 3850C the working space information from the enbedded RGB profile can be used asan RGB source definition for Fiery
83. cluded with user software B 4 rendering styles 1 4 workflow 2 13 ICC standard for color management systems B 3 ICM profiles applied to RGB images 9 2 illustration applications 9 1 Illustrator 5 5 9 3 9 9 Image Color M atching se ICM ImageICC rendering style 1 4 ink B 2 International Color Consortium seeICC JPEG 7 12 7 15 7 18 7 20 L light A 1 to A 2 line art see vector images M M acintosh interface cable 3 10 3 27 MacOS printer driver 1 16 M acromedia FreeH and see FreeH and maintenance of print devices B 2 measurements file 3 3 3 35 metamerism A 2 M icrosoft Excel se M icrosoft O ffice M icrosoft O ffice 6 1 to 6 2 M icrosoft PowerPoint se M icrosoft O ffice M icrosoft Printer D river Windows 2000 1 15 M icrosoft Word se M icrosoft O ffice misregistration of colors A 8 moir A 6 monitors calibration B 3 color model A 3 gamut of B 2 phosphors A 3 N named colors 5 5 None setting RGB Source option 1 5 0 office applications 5 1 5 3 to 5 5 6 1 to 6 2 offset lithographic printing A 5 offset press printing A 5 to A 6 offset press print jobs workflow issues 5 2 Other setting RGB Source option 1 5 output profile color conversion B 4 Output Profile option 1 3 P page layout applications 8 1 1 4 Index PageM aker 5 5 8 3 painting applications A 9 PANTONE color system 5 5 PANTONE Coated Color Reference 1 10 5 2 paper stock B 2 passwords for calibration 3 2 3 17 3 29 Perceptua
84. ct this option M Display Using Monitor Compensation Select this option From the RGB menu choose your current Photoshop RGB color space which should reflect the color space of most RGB files you will be opening If you create new RGB files or you want to standardize your RGB files choose EFIRGB Click Load if the file is not visible in the RGB pop up menu You can load the Calibrated RGB setup file EFIRGB ICC ColorSync file or EFIRGB ICM file All describe the same RGB space and automatically set the Gamma W hite Point and Primaries You may consider SRGB if you usually view images on a generic PC monitor or if you rely on a W indows operating system to manage color on your monitor If you choose sRGB as a working space make sure to print with the Fiery 3850C RGB Source option set to sRGB Note EFIRGB is set as the default RGB Source color space on the Fiery 3850C No matter what RGB space you select make sure it is available on the Fiery 3850C For more information on downloading RGB Source profiles to the Fiery 3850C see Chapter 4 7 9 Photoshop 5 x The M onitor area shows the currently selected profile in the Adobe G amma control panel Select both the Display Using M onitor Compensation and Preview options CMYK Setup From the Photoshop 5 x File menu choose Color Settings gt CM YK Setup CMYK Setup CMYK Model Q Built in ICC Tables ICC Options
85. d 3 32 Color Calibration 11 12 For Port select the COM port to which the EFI D ensitometer 100 is connected Mousitometer Measurements Opti Page Type fa Sorted Patches x Clicks Per Patch Audio Feedback E a Port com x 3 Cancel Measure each color patch using the EFI Densitometer 100 The Status field of the M ousitometer M easurements dialog box indicates whether the connection to the EFI D ensitometer 100 was successful TheEFI Densitometer 100 M easurements dialog box also provides a visual map of your progress Begin with Strip A placing the EFI D ensitometer 100 directly on the M easurement Page and directly over the first color patch Click the measurenent button on the EFI Densitometer 100 to take a reading You must click the button the number of times that you selected for Clicks Per Patch If you selected multiple clicks per patch it is a good idea to move the EFI Densitometer 100 slightly after each measurement while keeping it within the patch circle Note For more accurate measurement place a plain sheet of paper beneath the M easurement Page to block underlying colors from being read by the EFI Densitometer 100 Continue measuring every color patch on the M easurement Page being sure not to skip a single patch Note It iscritical that you take the measurements in the order outlined in the EFI Densitometer 100 M easurements dialog box and on the M easurement Page When all patch
86. d workflow W hen you bypass C olorW ise you must choose colors using only CM YK formulas designed specifically for your printer T he Fiery 3850C still prints pages using your PostScript files and drives the printer and its accessories but it does not perform CM YK color transformation nor does it consider the calibration of the printer Calibration is needed in order to get consistent output since the color response from your printer varies significantly depending on wear heat humidity and service The diagram below indicates that no modifications are made to colors in this workflow Workflow 3 Colors you define in an application Colors in output from the printer ed Application CMS File format Printer driver ColorWise ColorWise CMS calibration Turn off color management in your application Generally when printing to the Fiery 3850C you should disable color management in the application to ensure the Fiery 3850C receives color data properly and prints it accurately 2 7 Advanced workflows Save your files using color safe settings You can take several additional steps to ensure color accuracy When saving EPS files do not include PostScript C olor M anagement information This minimizes the risk conflicting data and multiple color conversions PostScript Color M anagement causes your CM YK and RGB colors to be interpreted by the Fiery 3850C as though they
87. d M ac OS Before printing from these applications make sure the appropriate PostScript printer driver and the Fiery 3850C PPD areinstalled on your computer as described in Getting Started Working with illustration applications You can print directly from an illustration application or use it to create and save files that will be imported into a page layout document To print from an illustration application use the printer driver and the print settings recommended in Chapter 1 Note These application notes provide instructions for printing composites only For instructions on printing color separations refer to the documentation for your application Asa general rule use the EPS file format when saving files with an illustration application Defining colors All illustration applications use the CM YK color model W hile some also allow you to define colors using other color modes they all send CM YK data to the Fiery 3850C Consequently the RGB Source and Rendering Style settings in the PPD do not affect all colors printed from illustration applications For predictable results with CMYK colors usethe CM YK Color Reference pages when defining colors see Choosing colors in PostScript applications on page 5 5 Note If you define colorsin RGB and print directly from the application the application converts the RGB datato CM YK before sending it to the Fiery 3850C This conversion by the application will determine which
88. d color profiles and contains application notes that explain how to print to the Fiery 3850C from popular M icrosoft W indows and Apple M ac O S applications This manual is part of a set of documentation that includes manuals for users and system administrators The other manuals should be available at your site refer to them for a complete description of your Fiery 3850C Note Thename Aero is used in illustrations to represent the Fiery 3850C T he term W indows 9x M e is used in this manual to refer to W indows 95 98 M e individual differences are noted Windows XP is supported If you use Windows XP follow the procedures for Windows 2000 About the documentation The Color Guideis organized to supply you with key information about managing the color output of your Fiery 3850C Chapter 1 describes the Fiery 3850C print options and how to get the best color results and Chapter 2 describes several effective workflows Calibration is discussed in the next two chapters Chapter 3 covers ColorW ise Pro Tools and other methods of calibrating the printer and Chapter 4 takes you through the features of Profile M anager used to manage color profiles on the Fiery 3850C and Color Editor which lets you customize simulation and output profiles Succeeding chapters provide tips for printing from business and graphics applications Finally the appendixes offer information about color theory and color management Note PCL p
89. dditive color mode additive primaries Red green and blue light that is used in additive color systems W hen added together in proper amounts these colors of light produce white artifact A visible defect in an image usually caused by limitations in the input or output process hardware or software a blemish or error banding Visible steps between shades in a color gradient bit depth Amount of information used for each pixel in araster image Black and white images require only one bit per pixd Grayscaleimages with 256 shades of gray require 8 bits or 1 byte per pixel Photographic quality color images can require 24 bits per pixel RGB images or 32 bits per pixel CM YK images bitmap An image comprised of small squares arranged in a grid Each square in the grid is a pixel The number of pixels per inch defines the resolution of a bitmap blasting An undesirable effect that occurs when excess amounts of toner possibly combined with certain types of paper stock cause objects in an image to spread beyond its boundaries as defined in the file BMP A graphics file format established by M icrosoft and native to the Windows operating system calibration The process of ensuring that a device behaves consistently with respect to a set of specifications CMS See color management system CMYK A subtractive color model that uses cyan magenta yellow and black or process colors used in color
90. e you can save the RGB imagein TIFF format and assign it an ICC profile and rendering intent when you import it into the document 8 3 Adobe PageMaker 7 x and 6 5 for Mac OS and Windows CMYK simulation You can specify a CM YK Simulation profile for the job using the CM YK Simulation Profile print option see page 1 6 The CM YK Simulation setting affects all CM YK color data sent by the page layout application e If the document contains CM YK images that were separated for an offset press standard apply the corresponding CM YK Simulation setting For example for images separated for SW O P choose SWOP asthe CM YK Simulation setting e If the document contains CM YK images that were separated according to the color characteristics of a custom ICC profile not a press standard profile choose the corresponding profile as the CM YK Simulation Profile print option on the Fiery 3850C Note To achieve the workflow described above the profile used for the separation of CM YK images in the document should also reside on the Fiery 3850C For more information on downloading CM YK Simulation profiles to the Fiery 3850C with ColorW ise Pro Tools see Chapter 4 Adobe PageMaker 7 x and 6 5 for Mac OS and Windows TheM ac O S and Windows versions of PageM aker 7 x and 6 5 are essentially the same The illustrations in this section show only the Windows version except where differences exist between the two versions PageMaker color settin
91. e Control Panel on the Fiery 3850C This chapter explains how calibration works and provides instructions for all calibration procedures Calibrating with VisualC al is described onpage 3 5 Calibrating with C olorW ise Pro Tools is described on page 3 29 For information on advanced calibration and simulation features such as editing profiles and creating custom profiles see Chapter 4 A format for inputting color measurements from other densitometers is described in Appendix C The procedures described in Chapters 3 and 4 are fundamentally the same for Windows and M ac O S computers The main differences are the interface cable and the port used to connect to the densitometer Introduction Calibration generates curves that adjust for the difference between the actual toner densities measurements and the response expected by the output profile e Measurements represent the actual color behavior of the printer e Calibration sets are sets of measurements e A calibration target that describes the expected behavior of the printer is contained in each output profile 3 2 Color Calibration Once you have calibrated the Fiery 3850C with ColorWise Pro Tools or with VisualCal a calibration set is stored on the Fiery 3850C T his calibration set is used when it is associated with an output profile Every output profile has an associated calibration set If you have not specified one the calibration set associated with the default output pro
92. e you will be able to trust your own eye for color T he bibliography at the back of this manual includes books on design Color and text It isnot a coincidence that the overwhelming majority of text you see is printed in black on white paper Text in black on white is highly legible and is not fatiguing to read for extended periods For many color materials using black text on a white background and confining color to graphic elements and headings is a good choice Color text can add flair to documents printed on paper when used skillfully T his technique is widely used in presentations W hen using color text avoid dazzling text and background combinations created from primary complements especially red and cyan or red and blue they are visually fatiguing and hard to read Color text is more legible when distinguished from its background by a difference in lightness for example dark blue text on a light beige background In addition using many different colorsin a string of text makes for a confused appearance and is hard to read H owever using a single highlight color is an effective way to draw the reader s eye to selected words See color example 10 for color text samples W hen using color text keep in mind that small font sizes typically do not print in color with the same sharpness asin black In most applications black text prints exclusively in black toner while color text usually prints with two or more toners Any misregi
93. easing impact and message retention Color can also be a source of distraction and discord if it is used poorly T his section outlines some tips and concepts that will prove useful as you approach designing color materials A 7 Desktop Color Primer A few rules of thumb Try some of the following strategies for creating successful color materials Rather than applying colors indiscriminately use color to aid comprehension In presentations graphs and charts use color to highlight patterns and emphasize differences In general fewer colors work better than many colors Usered as an accent color Red is particularly effective when used in otherwise monochromatic materials Consider the tastes of your target audience when choosing colors Keep a file of printed color pieces that appeal to you or strike you as effective Refer to it for ideas when designing your own documents Color wheel A color wheel color example 8 is a helpful tool for understanding the interrelation of colors T he colors on one side of the color wheel from magenta to yellow appear to most people to be warm colors while those on the other side from green to blue appear to be cool T he distance between two colors on the color wheel can help predict how they will appear when seen side by side Colors opposite one another on the whee are called complements color example 9a and create a striking contrast side by side This can be the basis for a bold gr
94. ed into FreeH and but once imported all are treated as EPS images TIFF images or editable paths For details see your FreeH and documentation W hen you import an EPS image into a document FreeH and inserts a link to the image rather than embedding the original file resulting in a smaller file size If the imageisaCM YK EPS file the colors print just as they would from the originating application Note Before placing a CM YK EPS file be sure the file was saved with D esktop Color Separation D CS set to O ff If the file was saved with D CS activated FreeH and prints composites of the image at the low resolution used for screen viewing All RGB images placed in a document are affected by your RGB Source and Rendering Style settings in the PPD For best results with placed images follow the instructions in Importing images on page 9 2 and CM YK simulation on page 9 2 9 11 FreeHand 9 x and 8 x for Windows and Mac OS TO SET OPTIONS WHEN PRINTING FROM FREEHAND 1 Select the Use PPD option in the Print dialog box 8 6 Printer flero_Print Destination FreeHand 8 0 1 Print setting p ch K l 1 Setup iPrinter type Color Controller a ick to access joose Norma iPaper size Letter j M Use PPD Gy printer driver name Screen 100Ipi 400dpi Orientation FreeHand Print Setup i Automatic Resolution 300 Click to select a PPD Output Composite Separations IFlatness
95. elow uses C olorW ise calibration and color management Workflow 2 Colors you define in an application Colors in output from the printer Application CMS File format Printer driver ColorWise ColorWise CMS calibration The Fiery 3850C comes into play near the end of the color workflow To ensure the colors you selected reach the Fiery 3850C and ColorW isein a usable form you should bypass any color management from applications and printer drivers Keep in mind however that color management from applications and printer drivers is fully supported by C olorW ise see Advanced workflows on page 2 7 You must print with the CM YK Simulation print option set to match the CM YK color space in your application when you selected the colors Any CM YK Simulation setting applies calibration so the response of the printer will appear to be stable 2 6 Simple and Advanced Workflows The recommended values for CM YK Simulation are SWOP in the US Euroscale in Europe and DIC in Japan choices that respect the color standard for each region If colors have been selected specifically for your calibrated printer set CM YK Simulation to None See the table on page 1 2 for alist and descriptions of C olorW ise print options that affect CM YK RGB PANTONE and other colors Workflow 3 bypassing ColorWise not recommended Bypassing C olorW ise color management while an option is not a recommende
96. ent from the desktop such as ColorSync or ICM In this workflow colors are modified only at the calibration stage T his is indicated by the black box in the diagram below Workflow 1 Colors you define in an application Colors in output from the printer Application CMS File format Printer driver ColorWise ColorWise CMS calibration 2 5 Simple workflows W hile this workflow lends some control over the color quality produced by the printer you should consider additional C olorW ise color management as described in the next section Workflow 2 using ColorWise color management standard workflow Fiery 3850C servers are highly optimized for the specific printer they drive and ColorW ise addresses many issues unique to your printer including screens individual toner response interactions among toners natural smoothness of blends and the capability to render PANTONE and custom colors T he Fiery 3850C distinguishes text and graphic from image elements so the black channe information is preserved while parameters used for CM YK color separations are maintained Conventional color management systems typically address only color conversions and they occupy your computer processor W hen you use C olorW ise jobs leave your computer faster to be processed more quickly on the Fiery 3850C T he recommended standard color workflow indicated by the black boxesin the diagram b
97. es 1 4 5 3 RGB color model 5 3 5 5 RGB Color Reference 5 2 5 4 RGB images EPS color conversion 1 5 PostScript and non PostScript 1 6 RGB source color space se source color space RGB Source option 1 2 1 5 S saturation A 1 A 3 1 5 Index Saturation ICC rendering style 1 4 scaling of raster images A 12 scanners A 3 screens used in halftoning A 6 Server Status option 3 5 Setup default color controls set in 1 2 short run color jobs workflow issues 5 1 short run color printing 2 1 simulation seCM YK Simulation option Source 1 10 option 1 5 source color space B 4 source color space profile color conversion B 4 spectral colors A 2 spectral components of light A 1 A 2 spectrophotometer calibrating 3 11 split complements A 7 Spot Color Matching option 1 3 1 9 5 7 spot colors 5 5 A 6 StatusT C 1 subtractive color model A 3 A 4 subtractive primaries A 4 sunlight A 1 swatch color matching 5 6 T targets 3 3 Test Page calibration status 3 5 examining 3 5 test prints B 2 text font size A 8 using color with A 8 TIFF images assigning ICC profilesto 8 2 preview 7 12 7 18 printing at full resolution 8 5 recommended for imported images 7 11 7 18 8 2 RGB 9 2 tint A 3 toner B 2 transfer functions 3 3 transparencies photographic A 4 B 2 triads A 7 V vector images A 9 visible spectrum of light A 1 VisualCal calibration method 3 5 W white point B 4 W hite Point option 1 2 W indows 2000 printer
98. es have been measured successfully click Accept and skip to step 15 3 33 Calibrating with ColorWise Pro Tools and DTP32 ED 100 13 If you chose the DTP32 method select the Page Type and Paper Size options you selected for the measurements page and click Measure Page Type 34 Sorted Patches Paper Size J 11217743 x Cancel Follow the directions in the dialog box that appears for feeding the measurement page through the X Rite DT P32 DTP32 Measurement x Status Port COM1 x Select densitometer port and press Start to begin scanning ees Start The Status field displays instructions for selecting the port and feeding the measurement page through the D T P32 four times once for each color strip 3 34 Color Calibration 14 15 16 17 When the Status field indicates that the measurements were read successfully click Accept In the Measure dialog box click OK In the Calibrator window click Apply to implement the new calibration set In the Information dialog box click OK This completes the calibration process To RESTORE DEFAULT CALIBRATION MEASUREMENTS Launch ColorWise Pro Tools and click Calibrator Click Restore Device Click OK to restore the preset default calibration set You are about to restore the default calibration for current Calibration Set Cancel Note Restore device applies only to the currently selected calibrati
99. es your target press such as SW O P if you are a prepress user If you are an office user printing final output choose an output profile that describes the printer connected to the Fiery 3850C To use a device specific output profile you must first upload the profile from the Fiery 3850C to your computer New CM YK documents you create in Photoshop will use the specified working space For guidelines on specifying Gray and Spot working spaces see your Photoshop 6 x documentation 4 Inthe Color Management Policies area choose policies for handling documents without embedded profiles or with embedded profiles that differ from the working space Unless you are an advanced color user we recommend that you choose O ff from the RGB CMYK and Gray menus T his option discards the original profile embedded in a document if it differs from the specified working space while preserving the numeric color values in the document For Profile M ismatches select Ask When O pening T his option displays an alert message that lest you override the specified policy behavior O ff when opening documents or importing color data 5 In the Conversion Options area specify settings for converting between color spaces Choose Adobe ACE from the Engine menu to use the built in color management engine for Photoshop 7 4 Adobe Photoshop Choose a rendering intent from the Intent menu that will optimize the color quality of the conversion For guideli
100. esolution 600x600 dpi SWOP Coated z E iv Appear in Driver a 500x600 dpi zj Cancel Apply Caneel Av Click OK In the main Profile M anager window the target icon appears next to the new default profile you specified Repeat steps 2 through 4 for each type of profile If no default is set for RGB Source the RGB Source print option is set to None If no default profile is set for Simulation the CM YK Simulation print option is set to None For more information on print options see Chapter 1 The O utput profile always has a default profile You can change the O utput default by selecting a preset profile you want as the default and clicking Profile Settings Or you can create a new default under a new name by selecting a preset profile and specifying your choice of the calibration set in the Use Calibration Set pop up menu and anew name in the Profile D escription menu 4 5 Profile Manager Downloading profiles The Fiery 3850C comes with default profiles You can download additional profiles from any computer connected to the Fiery 3850C TO DOWNLOAD A PROFILE 1 Launch ColorWise Pro Tools and click the Profile Manager The left side of the main Profile M anager windows lists the ICC profiles in the default directory of your workstation For Windows 9x M e the default directory is W indows System C olor For Windows NT 4 0 and Windows 2000 the default directory is Winnt System32 Colo
101. etate All printing devices use the subtractive color moda subtractive primaries Cyan magenta and yellow colorants used in subtractive color systems for color printing Combining the subtractive primaries produces darker colors Black is added to the subtractive primaries to compensate for deficiencies of the toners or inks and for more efficient black printing substrate In printing the material upon which the job is printed SWOP The abbreviation for Specifications for Web O ffset Publications A standard of specifications for separations proofs and color printing on a web offset press not a sheet fed press undercolor removal In areas where all three process colors C M Y overprint the amounts of those colors are reduced and replaced by black This improves wet ink trapping and reduces ink costs in process color printing vector image Graphic illustration created on computers where picture objects are defined mathematically as lines or curves between points T hese mathematical definitions are interpreted by an image language such as PostScript Vector images include artwork created with illustration applications such as Illustrator or FreeH and and page layout applications such as PageM aker G 8 Glossary white point T he color temperature of any white light source typically expressed in degrees Kelvin for example 6500 K typical for the white of a monitor workflow The path a print
102. etup or Page Setup dialog boxes of most applications For Window 9x M e the Fiery 3850C driver interface enables you to save combinations of settings that you can later access In addition you can choose different settings for individual jobs from the applications you use The printer driver writes a PostScript file containing the instructions generated by your application and the Fiery 3850C print options you selected T he printer driver sends the PostScript file to the Fiery 3850C T he Fiery 3850C then performs PostScript processing and color conversions and sends raster color data to the print device Note The following illustrations and instructions do not apply to all applications M any applications such as Adobe PageM aker Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator QuarkXPress and C orelD RAW have other color management options in addition to those presented in the printer driver For information on specific applications see Chapters 6 through 9 1 13 Printer drivers and print options Setting color management print options for Windows 9x Me and Windows NT This section explains how to set Fiery 3850C color print options with the Adobe PostScript printer driver a PostScript 3 printer driver that takes full advantage of the color features of the Fiery 3850C Before you proceed make sure you have completed the following procedures described in Getting Started e Install the Adobe PostScript Printer D river and the Fiery 3850C PPD
103. evel of color control For more information about individual print options see page 1 2 Setting color management print options for Windows 2000 This section explains Fiery 3850C color print options with the M icrosoft PostScript Printer D river for Windows 2000 T his PostScript driver takes full advantage of the color features of the Fiery 3850C Before you proceed make sure you have completed the following procedures described in Getting Started e Install the Fiery 3850C PPD for the M icrosoft PostScript Printer D river e Set up the Fiery 3850C for printing 1 16 Fiery 3850C Color Management To set print options access the printer driver options as described on page 1 12 Click the Advanced tab in the Printing Preferences dialog box and then choose settings for the print options described on page 1 2 Aero Advanced Options 21 x Rendering Style Printer s default RGB Source Profile Printer s default Other Gamma Printer s default Other White Point Printer s default Other Phosphors Printer s default CMYK Simulation Profile Printer s default Output Profile Printer s default Pure Black Text Graphics Printer s default Black Overprint Printer s default Spot Color Matching Printer s default Cancel Adobe PostScript printer driver for Mac OS This section explains how to set color management print options with the AdobePS printer driver for M ac OS a PostScript 3 driver that takes ful
104. fault settings see the Printing Guide Fiery 3850C color print option Rendering Style Photographic Presentation R elative Colorimetric Absolute Colorimetric D efault set at Setup What it does Applies a Fiery 3850C color rendering style CRD to RGB data see page 1 4 or to any incoming data with a PostScript source color space definition including CM YK RGB Source Profile EFIRGB sRGB PC Apple Standard O ther Source 1 10 N one Default set at Setup or with ColorW ise Pro Tools Applies an RGB source space definition to RGB data see page 1 5 If you choose the O ther setting you can specify particular settings for Gamma Phosphors and W hite Point See the corresponding options in this table T his option along with Gamma Phosphors and W hite Point the only ColorW ise options that affects only D eviceRGB or calibrated RGB color spaces Other Gamma 1 0 1 2 1 4 1 6 1 8 2 0 2 2 2 4 2 6 2 8 3 0 Applies the specified gamma value to the RGB source space definition see page 1 5 To use this print option you must choose O ther as the RGB Source setting Other Phosphors Hitachi EBU H itachi l kegami N T SC Radius Pivot SM PT E Trinitron Applies the specified phosphor monitor type information to theRGB source space definition see page 1 5 To use this print option you must choose O ther as the RGB Source setting Other White Point 5000 K D50 5500 K 6500 K D65 7500 K 9300 K
105. file is used Note Changing calibration has the potential to affect all jobs for all users so you may want to limit the number of people authorized to perform calibration You can set an Administrator password from the Fiery 3850C Control Pand or in Setup from Command WorkStation to control access to calibration Understanding calibration Although most users needs are met by the default calibration set the Fiery 3850C allows you to choose a calibration set to customize calibration for specialized jobs Calibration allows you to e Maximize the color reproduction capabilities of the Fiery 3850C e Ensure consistent color quality over time e Produce consistent output across Fiery 3850C servers that are connected to the same print engine e Achieve better color matches when reproducing spot colors such as PANTO N E colors or other named color systems e Optimize the Fiery 3850C for using ColorW ise rendering styles CRD s CM YK simulations and ICC profiles 3 3 Understanding calibration How calibration works Success in obtaining satisfactory print quality from a color server such as a Fiery 3850C connected to a printer depends on many factors Among the most important are establishing and maintaining optimal toner densities D ensity isa measure of the light absorbed by a surface By carefully regulating toner densities you can obtain consistent printed color Even with a calibrated system toner density is affected by se
106. file of the color image It allows an image editing application to perform color separation and passit through to final output with its integrity intact densitometer An instrument commonly used in the graphic arts industry to measure density according to a specified standard density A measurement of the light absorbing quality of a photographic or printed image desktop color separation S DCS DIC A Japanese standard of specifications for separations proofs and color printing EPS or EPSF Encapsulated PostScript A PostScript file format designed to be embedded in another PostScript stream Euroscale A European standard of specifications for separations proofs and color printing flexography A printing technology that uses flexible raised image plates Flexography can be used to print on non flat materials such as cans four color printer A printing device that uses cyan magenta yellow and black ink or toner gamma A numeric value representing the relationship gamma curve between the input and output values of a color device If gamma equals 1 input values are mapped exactly to output values gamut A range of colors A device gamut is the range of colors that a device such asa printer can produce An image gamut is the range of colorsin a particular image gamut mapping The conversion of color coordinates from one device s gamut to another usually accomplished with algorithms or loo
107. files are implemented on M ac OS computers in ColorSync and on Windows 95 98 WindowsNT 4 0 and Windows 2000 computers in Image Color M atching ICM The Fiery 3850C color management system C olorW ise supports ICC profiles imagesetter Raster based film output device a high resolution laser output device that writes bitmapped data onto photosensitive paper or film JPEG A graphics file format defined by the Joint Photographic Experts Group committee of International Standards Organization ISO a standard for digital compression of still image graphic data metamerism Phenomenon in which two colors composed of different combinations of light wavelengths appear identical under a specific light source but may look different under other light sources T he colors are called metamers G 5 Glossary moir An undesirable pattern in images made using halftone screens M oir can be caused by the improper line frequency of the screens improper screen angles improper alignment of halftone screens or by the combination of a halftone screen with patterns in the image itself named color A color that is defined according to a custom color system For example PANTONE 107 C isa named color office applications Software applications commonly used for business purposes including presentation applications spreadsheets and word processing programs offset lithography Printing in which ink is transfe
108. for the measurement page and then click Print For the densitometer method select either 34 or 21 Sorted Patches In the Input Tray pop up menu specify the paper source Print Options x Page Type 34 Sorted Patches x Paper Size 1117743 zj Input Tray Auto Select Print Cancel Retrieve the Measurement Page and click Cancel Under Get Measurements click Measure If you chose the DTP32 method proceed to step 13 If you chose the EFI Densitometer 100 method select options in the options dialog box and click Start For Page Type the previously selected page information appears For Clicks Per Patch select how many measurements clicks of the measurement button on the EFI D ensitometer 100 you want to use for each color patch up to three clicks per patch T he average measurement is returned to the Fiery 3850C M ore than one measurement per patch results in a more accurate measurement of that patch but it takes more time If you select multiple clicks per patch it isa good idea to move the EFI Densitometer 100 slightly after each measurement while keeping it within the patch circle Checking the Audio Feedback check box instructs the computer to signal you audibly after each patch measurement is completed T his allows you to take the measurements without having to see the computer screen O ne tone indicates the patch was measured successfully while another indicates a measurement error occurre
109. fore different combinations of spectral light can produce the same perceived color Purple colors which do not exist in the spectrum of pure light are found at the bottom of the diagram Purples are mixtures of red and blue light the opposite ends of the spectrum A 3 Desktop Color Primer Hue saturation and brightness A color can be described in terms of three varying characteristics called the H SB color moda e Hue tint the qualitative aspect of a color red green or orange e Saturation the purity of the color e Brightness relative position between white and black While the CIE chromaticity diagram color example 2 conveys hue and saturation a three dimensional color model is required to add the brightness component color example 3 M any computer applications include dialog boxes in which you choose colors by manipulating hue saturation and brightness For example some applications use a color picker color example 4 which can be reconfigured according to your preference Additive and subtractive color systems Color devices used in desktop publishing and printing mulate the range of visible colors using a set of primary colors that are combined to create other colors There are two methods for creating a range of colors from a set of primary colors Computer monitors and scanners are based on the additive color model Printing technologies including the Fiery 3850C and offset presses are based on
110. gs We recommend you use ColorW ise color management rather than the CM S options built into Adobe PageM aker Note Do not use both systems for the same print job To DISABLE PAGEMAKER COLOR MANAGEMENT 1 2 3 Choose Preferences gt General from the File menu Click CMS Setup Choose Off from the Color Management menu Click OK and then click OK again to close the dialog boxes 8 4 Page Layout Applications TO DISABLE COLOR MANAGEMENT FOR A BITMAPPED I MAGE 1 2 3 Select the bitmapped image in the document Choose Image gt CMS Source from the Element menu Choose None from the This Item Uses menu and click OK Windows version requirement For the W indows version of PageM aker 6 5 make sure a copy of the Fiery 3850C PPD file is in the following folders e PM 65 RSRC U SEN GLSH PPD 4 Windows System Importing images All RGB images placed in a document are affected by your RGB Source and Rendering Style settings For best results with placed images use the instructions in Importing images on page 8 2 and CM YK simulation on page 8 3 Selecting options when printing All print settings are specified from the Print dialog boxes in PageM aker 7 x or 6 5 The printer driver interface described in Chapter 1 is not used 8 5 Adobe PageMaker 7 x and 6 5 for Mac OS and Windows TO SET PRINT OPTIONS WHEN PRINTING FROM PAGEMAKER 1 Choose the Fiery 3850C PPD from the PPD menu
111. hop working space setting or leave the file unconverted the preferred choice but make sure the current Photoshop working space setting matches the intended color space of the image In the Profile M ismatch H andling area choose Ask W hen O pening from the RGB and CMYK menus When you open a file containing an ICC profile that does not match your current Photoshop working space setting you have the choice to convert from the embedded profile or not If you want to preserve the color integrity of the source image do not convert W hen you open the image immediately go to RGB or CMYK Setup to specify the working space for the image If your working space is set to your output device you may want to convert 7 8 Adobe Photoshop RGB Setup Photoshop 5 x allows you to simultaneously use two RGB spaces one for the monitor and one for the Photoshop RGB working space T he monitor RGB space setting does not affect the image data in the file it affects only the way the image is displayed on the monitor Even if an RGB image has been prepared with different monitor settings it is still correctly displayed on your monitor without changes to the original values in the file From the Photoshop 5 x File menu choose Color Settings gt RG B Setup RGB Setup Gamma Cancel White Point 5800 K 050 s load Primaries SMPTE C CCIR 661 1 Monitor My monitor r9 3 Sele
112. hould calibrate the X Rite D T P41 spectrophotometer every time you calibrate the Fiery 3850C You can initiate the calibration sequence in ColorW ise Pro Tools Calibrator as part of the process of Fiery 3850C calibration The computer may also prompt you that it is necessary to calibrate the spectrophotometer Alternatively you can initiate the D T P41 calibration process using the Instrument button on the DT P41 See the Instrument O perator s M anual that accompanied the X Rite DT P41 for more information on this method M ultiple users connect to one Fiery 3850C server with C olorW ise Pro Tools but only one user at a time can use the Calibrator module An error message appears if you try to calibrate when another user is already using C olorW ise Pro Tools to calibrate 3 12 Color Calibration Note ColorW ise Pro Tools for Windows and M ac OS computers are fundamentally the same differences are noted in this chapter T he screens and dialog boxes you see illustrated here are the W indows version You will need the C olor Reflection Reference strip included with the spectrophotometer Remove the strip from its protective envelope handling it only by the edges K eep the strip free of dust and smudges and always store it in the protective envelope TO CALIBRATE THE X RITE DTP41 1 2 3 Connect the spectrophotometer to the computer and turn on power see page 3 8 Launch ColorWise Pro Tools and connect to the Fiery
113. hould remain sealed until they are needed Print color reference pages such as the Color Charts from the Control Panel or Command WorkStation and the color reference pages included with the user software see Gating Started All of these pages include fully saturated color patches and pale tints of cyan magenta yellow and black Images with skin tones offer a very good basis for comparison You can save and compare pages you printed at different times If there is a noticeable change in appearance you should calibrate the Fiery 3850C 3 5 Calibrating from the Control Panel using VisualCal W hen you examine theTest Page keep in mind that all color patches should be visible even though they may be very faint in the five percent and two percent range and each color s patch set should show uniform gradation from patch to patch as the color lightens from 100 percent to zero percent If the solid density patches 100 cyan magenta yellow or black look less saturated with time show the pages to your printer service technician to find out whether adjusting the printer can improve output Checking calibration status You can check whether the Fiery 3850C is calibrated which calibration set and output profile were used and when the printer was last calibrated e Print a Configuration page or Test Page from the Control Panel or the Command WorkStation For information about printing these pages see the Configuration Guide e
114. icted Rights clause at 52 227 19 and the limitations set forth in Electronics For maging s standard commercial agreement for this software Unpublished rights reserved under the copyright laws of the United States Part Number FCC Information WARNING FCC Regulations state that any unauthorized changes or modifications to this equipment not expressly approved by the manufacturer could void the user s authority to operate this equipment Class B D eclaration of C onformity T his equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a class B digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules T hese limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation T his equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications H owever there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is
115. iery 3850C is connected Although CM YK printer profiles can be downloaded as Simulation or O utput consider how they will be used If you want the Fiery 3850C prints to look like another printer download that profile as a Simulation If you have a custom profile of the printer your Fiery 3850C is connected to download that profile as an O utput profile 5 Click the arrow to download the profile and click OK when the download is complete T he new profile now appears on the list of profiles on the right side of the Profile M anager main window This profile must be associated with one of the predefined names Source 1 through Source 10 for RGB Source Simulation 1 through Simulation 10 for Simulation or Output 1 through O uput 10 for O utput or set as the default before it can be used See D efining profiles on page 4 8 Note When an output profile is downloaded it inherits the calibration target of the current default output profile Editing profiles You can customize the profiles on the Fiery 3850C to meet your specific needs and the characteristics of your printer using Color Editor either directly or through Profile M anager See Color Editor on page 4 11 for moreinformation on editing profiles 4 7 Profile Manager Managing profiles Profile M anager lets you back up profiles to ensure that no custom profiles are lost when the Fiery 3850C software is updated You can also upload a copy of a built in Fiery 385
116. ifferent color modas the most common being RGB CM YK and the PANTONE color matching system Each model requires a different color conversion at the Fiery 3850C Color conversion workflows for CM YK and PANTONE colors are explained below e CMYK colors are device dependent In a proofing scenario colors specified in prepress applications are adjusted so the gamut of the Fiery 3850C printer can simulate that of the press In a short run printing workflow specifying CM YK colors according to the calibrated printer output eliminates the need for simulation during printing PANTONE spot colors are special inks manufactured to run on an offset printing press Spot colors can be simulated using CM YK printer toners or process color inks Two basic workflows exist for printing PAN TONE colorsto the Fiery 3850C Spot Color M atching On instructs the Fiery 3850C to match the output of the printer to the PANTONE spot color Spot Color M atching O ff instructs the Fiery 3850C to match theprinter output to a PAN TON E specified process simulation T his CM YK combination is then printed with the CM YK Simulation setting you choose such as SW OP or DIC Desktop versus Fiery 3850C color management A desktop color management system uses ICC profiles to convert colors from one device gamut to the next see Appendix B The color data is converted when it is passed from one application to another or when the job is sent to the printer so the processing
117. ify the paper source Color Setup Color Setup is used to set the default C olorW ise settings for the Fiery 3850C To access Color Setup click its icon in the ColorW ise Pro Tools main window Setting default ColorWise options Color Setup allows you to configure the default color management settings for the Fiery 3850C T hese settings are applied to all print jobs sent to the Fiery 3850C unless a user overrides them for an individual job by changing settings in the printer driver T hese default settings can also be overridden using Command WorkStation or Fiery WebSpooler C olor Setup maintains a connection to the Fiery 3850C so changes made in Profile M anager appear automatically In addition the defaults set in Color Setup are automatically reflected in other Fiery 3850C tools that list default settings You can also reset the Fiery 3850C to its factory default settings by clicking the Factory D efault button in the lower left corner of the Color Setup window 4 20 ColorWise Pro Tools The options in Color Setup are arranged in a pattern representing the flow of color processing that takes place on the Fiery 3850C B Color Setup _ or x These options will be used as the default for this printer RGB Source Profile Rendering Style 8 E EFIRGB meet Presentation J CMYK Simulation Profile None J a Output Profile Fiery 3850C 600dpi v1F J Spot lt I wo f R x o g a amp A Pal B
118. imulation on page 9 2 If you have additional color management requirements not offered by C olorW ise such as managing color on devices not controlled by the Fiery 3850C you may want to consider using the I lustrator color management features For more information see your Illustrator documentation Specifying print options The following procedure explains how to set print options when printing a document from Illustrator 9 x or 8 x to the Fiery 3850C TO SET PRINT OPTIONS IN ILLUSTRATOR 1 Choose Print from the File menu in Illustrator The Print dialog box appears For the Windows version of Illustrator specify appropriate print options e Choose the Fiery 3850C printer from the Name menu e Choose Composite from the O utput menu 9 7 Adobe Illustrator for Windows and Mac OS e Choose Level 2 or 3 from the PostScript menu ee a Click Properties to set print options Select the printer name Choose Composite Downoad Choose PostScript Level 2 or 3 9 8 Illustration Applications 3 For the Mac OS version of Illustrator specify appropriate print options e Choose the Fiery 3850C printer from the Printer menu e Choose Adobe Illustrator from the option menu below the Printer menu e Choose Composite from the O utput menu Choose Level 3 from the PostScript menu Mac OS 8 6 printer Destination Adobe Illustrator 8 0 Choose Composite Choose PostSc
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120. ite DT P41 should appear as a measurement method T his information is provided to Calibrator by the Fiery 3850C If this option does not appear make sure you are connected to the Fiery 3850C 2 Calibrator Aero lel Es Standard Expert 1 Select Measurement Method 2 Check Print Settings F Calibration Set Resolution 600x600 dpi z Calibrated 4 11 02 12 00 00 PM By User Default Method Default 3 Generate Measurement Page 4 Get Measurements Measure From File Restore Device Apply Done 4 Under Check Print Settings choose the desired calibration set Choose the appropriate calibration set for the print resolution you will use most often Note For thiscalibration to take effect the calibration set must be associated with one or more output profiles T he default calibration set is already associated with the default output profile so there is no need to make any new associations 5 Under Generate Measurement Page click Print 6 In the Print Options dialog box choose the Page Type Paper Size and Input Tray to use for the measurement page and then click Print In the Page Type pop up menu select either 34 or 21 Sorted Patches In the Paper Size pop up menu the menu will automatically select LT R A4 for 21 Sorted Patches or 11x17 A3 for 34 Sorted Patches 3 19 Calibrating with ColorWise Pro Tools and DTP41 In the Input Tray pop up menu specify the paper sour
121. job follows from creation to destination A workflow may originate with an RGB scan imported to the client workstation and opened on the desktop in an image processing application such as Photoshop After adjustments are made to the scanned image it is evaluated on a color proofing device for eventual color printing on the same device or on press Books Adobe Print Publishing Guide Adobe Systems Incorporated 1995 Comes as part of the documentation for Adobe products such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator P N 0397 0719 Blatner D avid and Fraser Bruce Real World Photoshop 3 Industrial Strength Production Techniques Berkeley Peachpit Press 1996 Bruno M ichael H ed Pocket Pal A Graphic Arts Production H andbook Seventeenth Edition Memphis International Paper 1997 Hunt R W G The Reproduction of Colour Fifth Edition Surrey Fountain Press 1996 Kieran Michael T he Color Scanning Success H andbook Toronto D PA Communications Corp 1997 Kieran M ichad Understanding D extop Color Second Edition Berkeley Peachpit Press 1994 Margulis D an Profesional Photoshop Color Correction Retouching and Image Manipulation with AdobePhotoshop John Wiley amp Sons 1995 M iller M arc D and Zaucha Randy The Color M ac Second Edition H ayden Books 1995 X Rite Color Guide and Glossary Communication M easurenent and Control for D igital Imaging and Graphic Arts X Rite Incorporated 19
122. k up tables GDI Graphics Device Interface Graphics and display technology used by computers running Windows GD applications rely on GDI rather than the PostScript language to send text and pictures to printers G 4 Glossary GIF Graphics Interchange Format A standard developed by CompuServe for bitmap graphics of up to 256 colors and used for posting photographic images on the Internet or intranet pages rarely used for professional printing gradient A smooth transition between two different colors or between two shades of a color Graphics Device Interface SeGDI Graphics Interchange Format See GIF gravure A printing technology that uses an etched cylinder that has been immersed in ink The ink that renainsin the etched areas is applied to the paper The non etched surfaces of the cylinder are non printing areas halftoning A method for representing an original continuoustoneimage using a pattern of dots lines or other patterns HSB A color moda where each color is represented by its hue saturation and brightness components supported by most color applications ICC profile An industry standard color profile format developed by the International Color Consortium ICC that describes the color capabilities including the gamut of a color device based on the differences between an ideal and the current device T he ideal is often provided by the manufacturer as a color reference file ICC pro
123. l ICC rendering style 1 4 phosphors A 3 B 4 Phosphors option 1 2 photographic prints A 4 Photographic rendering style 1 4 photographic transparencies A 4 B 2 Photoshop 5 5 7 1 to 7 20 physics of color A 1 pixel editing applications A 9 A 11 pixels in raster images A 9 PostScript and non PostScript RGB data 7 17 PostScript applications color handling 5 5 using color in 5 5 to 5 8 PostScript printer description file see PPD PostScript Printer D river Windows 98 M e 1 12 PostScript printer drivers 6 2 PowerPoint see M icrosoft O ffice PPD 1 11 1 13 1 15 1 16 G 5 prepress proof A 5 B 1 presentation print jobs rendering styles appropriate for 1 4 using color in A 7 Presentation rendering style 1 4 press simulation se CM YK Simulation option print devices consistency B 1 gamut B 1 maintenance B 2 printing test prints B 2 printer recalibrating color output 3 5 printer drivers MacOS 1 16 Windows 1 12 to 1 16 printing calibration pages 3 5 raster images A 9 techniques A 5 prism A 1 process colors 5 6 A 4 A 6 profiles device B 3 proofing prepress A 5 B 1 Pure Black Text Graphics option 1 3 1 7 QuarkXPress 5 5 8 6 QuickD raw applications using color in 5 3 to 5 5 R raster images A 9 to A 11 bit depth A 9 A 10 filesize A 10 for offset press printing A 11 printing A 9 resolution A 10 to A 11 scaling of A 12 registration of colors A 8 Rdative Colorimetric 1 4 Rendering Style option 1 2 rendering styl
124. l advantage of the color features of the Fiery 3850C and lets you save a set of print option settings Before you continue make sure you have completed the following e Install the AdobePS printer driver and the Fiery 3850C PPD as described in Getting Started e Select the Fiery 3850C in the Chooser and set it up with the Fiery 3850C PPD Note The following illustrations and instructions do not apply to all applications M any applications such as PageM aker Photoshop Illustrator Q uarkX Press and CorelD RAW have other color management options in addition to those presented in the printer driver For information on specific applications see Chapters 6 through 9 1 17 Printer drivers and print options Setting color management print options You can choose print options from the various panes of the AdobePS driver dialog box To access the initial AdobePS dialog box choose Print from the File menu of your application Note The word pane is used to describe the different pages that appear in the driver dialog box when you make selections from the pull down menu at the upper left Each pane presents a particular set of print options The AdobePS driver includes the following Color M atching options Color Grayscale W hen this setting is used to print to the Fiery 3850C ColorWise provides all color conversions on the Fiery 3850C Typically you should use this option when printing to the Fiery 3850C PostScript
125. l makeup of the two light sources The mixture of light wavelengths emitted by a light source is reflected selectively by different objects Different mixtures of reflected light appear as different colors Some of these mixtures appear as relatively saturated colors but most appear to us as grays or impure hues of a color CIE color model In the 1930s the Commission Internationale de l Eclairage CIE defined a standard color space a way of defining colors in mathematical terms to help in the communication of color information T his color space is based on research on the nature of color perception The CIE chromaticity diagram color example 2 isa two dimensional model of color vision The arc around the top of the horseshoe encompasses the pure or spectral colors from blue violet to red Although the CIE chromaticity diagram is not perceptually uniform some areas of the diagram seen to compress color differences relative to others it is a good tool for illustrating some interesting aspects of color vision By mixing any two spectral colors in different proportions we can create all the colors found on the straight line drawn between them in the diagram It is possible to create the same gray by mixing blue green and red light or by mixing yellow green and blue violet light T his is possible because of aphenomenon peculiar to color vision called metamerism T he eye does not distinguish individual wavelengths of light T here
126. lack ap V Pure Black Text and Graphics L T Black Overprint lt JJ Factory Default OK Cancel Apply For those color options that offer multiple choices click the down arrow and make your selection from the pop up menu that appears O ther options are selected by selecting a checkbox next to the option name O nce you have made your changes you must click OK or Apply for the changes to take effect Clicking O K sets the new defaults and closes the C olor Setup window Clicking Apply sets the new defaults and keeps the Color Setup window open Clicking Cancel closes the Color Setup window without applying any changes to the default settings For most users the factory defaults result in optimal color output Chapter 5 Working with Color in Applications 5 1 Working with color This chapter provides guidelines for defining colorsin your documents to produce the results you want T he following topics are covered e Factors affecting how you work with color e Choosing colorsin applications that rdy on GDI or QuickD raw to communicate data to the printer driver such as presentation and word processing applications e Choosing colorsin applications that have the ability to write thar own PostScript such as some page layout illustration and pixedl editing applications Working with color The two main factors that influence how you work with color in the creation of documents are the application you use and the
127. lows If printed colors are your priority choose colors from printed samples By using these sample colors your printed output will remain consistent regardless of how the colors appear on different monitors Print the palette of available colors from business applications and then select colors from the printed samples Fiery 3850C Color reference files are included on the User Software CD see page 5 2 You can also print color charts from the Control Pane and select colors by number or name from the printed samples Advanced applications let you define colors in the easier to control PANTONE and CMYK color spaces See Chapter 5 for more advice on color section No matter which workflow most closely matches your own you should calibrate your printer regularly see Chapter 3 Select a short workflow Every time colors are converted performance and color accuracy are affected Therefore a workflow with fewer steps minimizes the risk of error Workflow 1 using ColorWise calibration minimal workflow A minimal color workflow requires that you calibrate the printer Sdect from printed colors as described above and set the CM YK Simulation option to None since simulation is not needed when colors are already defined using CM YK values optimized for your calibrated printer Note CM YK Simulation set to N one is also useful when you want to prepare an output profile of your calibrated printer or when you use less efficient color managem
128. ltiple times at markedly different sizes in a document save a separate version of the image at the correct size for each placement If you need to place an image at greater than 100 in a document remember that the output image resolution is affected For example if you scalea 200 ppi image to 200 the image is printed at 100 ppi B 1 Color Management Appendix B This appendix provides information on controlling and managi ng color output in Color order to achieve predictable color results It also discusses the basics of color management Management Controlling printed color W hen working with color materials whether they be presentations illustrations or complicated page designs you make aesthetic decisions about the colors you use O nce you have decided on your goal you then need to realize it in print Your color printing system becomes an ally in this creative process to the extent that results are predictable If you designed a poster to print on the Fiery 3850C you want the printed colors to match the design specification If you are printing presentations on the Fiery 3850C you want to preserve the vivid colors you see on your monitor If you are working with color that will be printed on an offset press you want the Fiery 3850C output to match other prepress proofs or PANTONE color swatch books Thetypeof print job and the final print device Fiery 3850C or offset press determine the methodology you use to
129. mage as an EPS or TIFF file and import it into the document Or save the RGB imagein TIFF format and assign it an ICC profile and rendering intent when you import it into the document see the individual application notes in this chapter CMYK simulation You can specify a press simulation target and a press simulation method for the job with print options see Chapter 1 The CM YK Simulation setting affects all CM YK color data sent by the illustration application e If the document contains CM YK images that were separated for an offset press standard apply the corresponding CM YK Simulation setting For example for images separated for SW O P choose SW O P Coated as the CM YK Simulation setting e If the document contains CM YK images that were separated according to the color characteristics of a custom ICC profile not a press standard profile select the corresponding profile from the CM YK Simulation Profile print option on the Fiery 3850C 9 3 Adobe Illustrator for Windows and Mac OS Note The workflow described above requires that the profile used for the separation of CMYK imagesin the document also resides on the Fiery 3850C For more information on downloading CM YK Simulation profiles to the Fiery 3850C with ColorW ise Pro Tools see Chapter 4 Adobe Illustrator for Windows and Mac OS The following sections provide guidelines for working with versions 9 x and 8 x of Adobe Illustrator Illustrator 9 x color settings
130. monitor as well as your printer For most users predictability of printed color output is adequate and monitor calibration is not necessary For information on monitor calibration see your Photoshop or Illustrator documentation B 4 Color Management Color conversion Before a color document can be printed the color data in it must be converted to the gamut of the print device W hether performed by the Fiery 3850C or by a host based CMS the process of converting color data for a print device is the same the CMS interprets RGB image data according to a specified source profile and adjusts both RGB and CM YK data according to a specified output profile also called a destination profile by some color management systems Color management system ZN Source Output profile N A profile Device independent color space T he source profile defines the RGB color space of the image s source characteristics such as the white point gamma and type of phosphors used T he output profile defines the gamut of the output device T he Fiery 3850C or the host based CM S uses a device independent color space to translate between the source color space and the color space of the output device The Fiery 3850C allows you to specify default and override settings for the source color space information and the output profile information see page 1 1 When you use these settings you do not need to use the features of other color management syste
131. mpliance with the relevant RFI protection requirements both individually and on system level to simulate normal operation conditions H owever it is possible that these RFI Requirements are not met under certain unfavorable conditions in other installations It is the user who is responsible for compliance of his particular installation Dieses Ger t wurde sowohl einzeln als auch in einer Anlage die einen normalen Anwendungsfall nachbildet auf die Einhaltung der Funkentst rbestimmungen gepr ft Es ist jedoch m glich dass die Funkentstorbestimmungen unter ung nstigen Umst nden bei anderen Geratekombinationen nicht eingehalten werden Fur die Einhaltung der Funkentstorbestimmungen einer gesamten Anlage in der dieses G er t betrieben wird ist der Berei ber verantwortlich Compliance with applicable regulations depends on the use of shielded cables It is the user who is responsible for procuring the appropriate cables D ie Einhaltung zutreffender Bestimmungen h ngt davon ab dass geschirmte Ausf hrungen ben tzt werden Fur die Beschaffung richtiger Ausf hrungen ist der Betralber verantwortlich Software License Agreement YOU SHOULD CAREFULLY READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS BEFORE USING THIS SOFTWARE IF YOU DO NOT AGREETO THETERMSAND CONDITIONSOF THISAGREEMENT DO NOT USETHE SOFTWARE INSTALLING OR USING THE SOFTWARE INDICATESTHAT YOU AGREE TO AND ACCEPT THE TERMS OF THISAGREEMENT IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ACCEPT THETERMS OF THISA
132. ms Your Fiery 3850C software includes ICC profiles for use with other color management systems if you choose to use them although conflicts may arise when the Fiery 3850C CM Sis used in conjunction with a host CM S Color management systems can also be used to adjust color data to the gamut of a print device other than the one to which you are printing T his process of simulating another print device is commonly used for proofing jobs that will print on an offset press The Fiery 3850C simulation feature is described on page 1 6 Appendix C Importing Densitometer Measurements C 1 Importing Densitometer Measurements This appendix describes Simple ASCII File Format which can be used to import density measurements from measurement devices To use your own measurement data from an alternate densitometer record your individual readings in a text file and structure it as described below Simple ASCII Import File Format SAI FF This format describes Status T measurement data and is for import into the ColorW ise Pro Tools Calibrator T here are three possible file formats e 1D StatusT density for EFI 34 patch page e 1D StatusT density for EFI 21 patch page e 1D StatusT density for other pages maximum of 256 patches per ink The file format is ASCII and has no tabs A single space or multiple spaces are used as delimiters Blank lines are not allowed Each line in the file represents four patches C M Y K of a specific ink value
133. n also be used in combination with color management systens on Windows and M ac OS computers Basics of color management The past several years have seen progress toward standardization in the field of digital color management systems Both the Windows and M ac O S operating systems now support a standard format developed by the International Color Consortium ICC ThisICC format is implemented on Windows 98 M e and W indows 2000 computers in Image Color M atching ICM and on M ac OS computers in ColorSync M ore and more software developers are also incorporating color management systems into high end applications The Fiery 3850C color management system C olorW ise supports this industry standard profile format A color management system or CMS isa translator between the color space of the source image the monitor or a scanner for example and the color space of the output device The CM S uses a device independent color space such as CIELAB asits intermediate color space To perform its translation the CM S needsinformation about the color space of the source image and the gamut of the print device T his information is provided in the form of profiles often created by the makers of the monitor or print device The end product of a CM S conversion isa printed document or an image file in the gamut of a particular device Note If color matching between computer display and printed output is critical you should calibrate your
134. n full force and effect If you have any questions please see EF I s web site at www efi com Electronics For Imaging 303 Velocity Way Foster City CA 94404 Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Introduction About the documentation xiii Key features of ColorWise xiv Fiery 3850C Color Management Managing color on the Fiery 3850C 1 1 Rendering styles 1 4 RGB Source Profile 1 5 CMYK Simulation Profile 1 6 Output profile 1 6 Pure Black Text G raphics 1 7 Black O verprint 1 8 Spot Color M atching 1 9 Printer drivers and print options 1 11 W hat a printer driver does 1 11 PostScript printer driver for Windows computers 1 12 Adobe PostScript printer driver for M ac OS 1 16 Simple and Advanced Workflows Workflow concepts 2 1 Short run printing versus color proofing 2 1 RGB CMYK and PANTONE colors 2 2 D esktop versus Fiery 3850C color management 2 2 Simple workflows 2 3 Select your colors wisely 2 3 Select a short workflow 2 4 Advanced workflows 2 7 Short run printing examples 2 7 Color proofing examples 2 13 viii Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Contents Color Calibration Introduction 3 1 Understanding calibration 3 2 H ow calibration works 3 3 Scheduling calibration 3 4 Checking calibration status 3 5 Calibrating from the Control Panel using VisualCal 3 5 Limits and 30 M atch 3 5 Gray Balance 3 6 Using a spectrophotometer 3 7 Setting up the spectrophotometer 3 8 Calibrating the spectro
135. nd 8 x Only M ac O S dialog boxes are shown but the information and instructions are identical for the Windows version FreeHand color settings W hen using ColorW ise color management turn off FreeH and color management features TO DISABLE COLOR MANAGEMENT IN FREEHAND 9 X OR 8 X 1 2 Choose Preferences from the File menu Click the Colors category in the Preferences dialog box Preferences HB Guide color L Grid color CL Color List shows Container color Text color fAuto rename colors Color Mixer Tints panel uses split color well Category Click Colors to access the color management settings 3 O Dither 8 bit colors Color management Type Kodak Digital Science Monitor Default Monitor simulates None Separations printer Default CMYK Advanced Setup Choose None for the type of color management 9 10 Illustration Applications Defining colors Any colors defined in FreeH and are sent to the printer in CM YK even those defined using other color models For best results use the color definition methods described on page 5 5 You can control the conversion of RGB colors defined in FreeH and by specifying settings in the Preferences dialog box under the Colors category or choosing C olor M anagement from the FreeH and menu on the Print dialog box Importing images A number of file types can be import
136. ne or more linked simulation use the following procedure 4 17 Color Editor TO UNDO EDITS MADE TO A CUSTOM LINKED SIMULATION 1 Launch ColorWise Pro Tools and click either Color Editor or Profile Manager 2 Choose Simulation from the View pop up menu choose the simulation for which you want to undo edits and click Select Color Editor or Edit Profile Manager 3 Choose the output profile with which your unwanted edits are linked from the Link with menu EY Color Editor Euroscale Jol x Edit Mode Link with Quick z z Revert to Master B a Cyan D Max z fe h Magenta D Max z B em Yelow D Max 3 Fia R 3R Brightness g Dot Gain oaoaraa na a mw Input Input Output po fo foo Add Remove Curves Test Print Import Select Profile Save Done 4 Click Revert to Master Note Revert to M aster makes the curves for one or more linked simulations match the last saved master simulation If you have edited and saved changes to a master simulation your linked simulations will revert to the changed master not the original 4 18 ColorWise Pro Tools 5 Indicate whether you want to revert the currently selected linked simulation only or revert all links of this simulation profile and click OK Revert to Master For this Edit Mode with this Profile Link only For all Edit Modes and all Profile Links Cancel If yo
137. ned as CM YK and as PAN TON E spot colors selected from printed output and they are saved using the Illustrator EPS file format After all of these individual objects are imported into Q uarkX Press additional design elements in Q uarkX Press are colored using CM YK process colors or PANTONE spot colors Use the settings illustrated in this workflow for printing brochures newsletters and other layouts Note Anytime you place CM YK colorsin a document select them from printed output see page 2 3 This document could be created as follows e Create an RGB imagein Photoshop and save it as Photoshop EPS e Create a graphic in Illustrator using CM YK and PANTONE colors and save as Illustrator EPS e UseCMYK colors and aPANTONE color in aQ uarkX Press document e Import the Illustrator EPS into Q uarkX Press and place the Photoshop EPS image e Print the Q uarkX Press document to the Fiery 3850C e UseColorWise to convert the RGB image to printer CM YK to adjust the process colors for short run printing and to match the PANTONE spot colors using the full printer gamut 2 10 Simple and Advanced Workflows The ColorW ise settings used in this example are e RGB Source Profile set to EFIRGB or another RGB source definition e Rendering Style set to Photographic CMYK Simulation set to None e Spot Color M atching set to On The diagram below indicates the steps for this particular workflow in black Photoshop RGB workflow with Illu
138. nes on choosing the rendering intent see your Photoshop 6 x documentation Select Use Black Point Compensation and Use Dither 8 bit channe images to optimize the quality of color conversions 6 Clear the Desaturate Monitor Colors By and Blend RGB Colors Using Gamma options in the Advanced Controls area D eselecting these options helps optimize the matching of the monitor display to printed output 7 Click Save to save the current group of color settings The Save dialog box appears 8 Name the settings file accept the default saved location and click Save You can switch to your saved settings at any time by choosing the group namefrom the Settings menu at the top of the C olor Settings dialog box Photoshop 5 x Because Photoshop 5 x uses a sophisticated color management system there are several setup steps you should take before you begin working T hese steps include Calibrating your monitor e Adjusting Photoshop color settings e Setting ColorSync defaults M ac OS only For information on monitor calibration and color setup in Photoshop version 5 02 or later open the Adobe Color M anagement Assistant M ac O S or Adobe Color M anagement W izard Windows by choosing H dp gt Color M anagement See your Adobe Photoshop 5 x documentation or the Adobe Technical Guidelines for Photoshop at www adobe com Photoshop 5 x color settings T he settings you select in the Photoshop 5 x control panel and three setup dialog
139. ng one of several printing techniques offset lithography flexography and gravure to name a few All traditional printing techniques require lengthy preparation before a print run can take place Short run color printing including Fiery 3850C printing eliminates most of this preparation By streamlining the process of color printing the Fiery 3850C makes short print runs economically feasible In contemporary offset lithographic printing digital files from desktop computers are output to an imagesetter which creates film separations T he film is used to makea prepress proof which isan accurate predictor of the final print job and allows you to make corrections before going to press O nce the proof is approved the printer makes plates from the film and runs the print job on the press cr Desktop gt Imagesetter gt Film gt Proof gt Press gt Print run computer lt Se Desktop gt Print device gt Color prints computer With a Fiery 3850C you simply print the file The Fiery 3850C processes the PostScript information in the file and sends four bitmaps one each for cyan magenta yellow and black to the print engine T he ease of Fiery 3850C printing makes possible experimentation that would be too costly on press allowing unlimited fine tuning of color and design elements A 6 Desktop Color Primer Halftone and continuous tone devices H alftoning is used in offset printing to print each process
140. nta toners and the quality of the output is improved since it will not show artifacts near the edges of the text The option also works with text defined in the RGB color space that isRGB 0 0 0 With Black O verprint O ff the border of the text is on an edge that has cyan and magenta toners on one side outside the text and black toner on the other side inside the text O n many devices this transition causes visible artifacts because of the practical limitations of the printer Spot Color Matching The Spot Color M atching option provides automatic matching of PANTONE colors with their best CM YK equivalents e On T heFiery 3850C usesa built in table to generate the closest CM YK matches of PANTONE colors your printer can produce N ew tables are generated when you add new output profiles Note Spot colors not included in the built in table are treated as CM YK e Off The Fiery 3850C usestheCM YK equivalents defined by your application to print PANTONE colors For jobs that include PAN TONE spot colors set Spot Color M atching to O n unless you are printing press simulations In that case set Spot Color M atching to O ff and choose the appropriate CM YK Simulation setting see page 1 6 Note You can use the Spot Color M atching option only when printing composites not when printing separations 1 10 Fiery 3850C Color Management Spot Color Matching and the PANTONE Coated Color Reference The PAN TONE Coated C
141. nting features of the Fiery 3850C for users who send jobs via remote workstations on the network The Job Management Guide explains the functions of the Fiery 3850C client utilities including the Command WorkStation and how you use them to manage jobs T his book is intended for an operator or administrator or a user with the necessary access privileges who needs to monitor and manage job flow and troubleshoot problems that may arise Release N otes provide last minute product information and workarounds for some of the problems you may encounter The Printing Guide Color Guide and Job M anagement Guide are provided on a CD ROM Key features of ColorWise ColorWise is the color management system CMS built into the Fiery 3850C and designed to provide both casual and expert users the best color output for a variety of purposes T he C olorW ise default settings provide great out of box color from many Windows and M ac OS applications T his allows casual users to get quality output without knowing about or changing any color settings on the Fiery 3850C xv Key features of ColorWise For consistent color make sure the Fiery 3850C is calibrated on a regular basis ColorW ise Pro Tools include a simple to use calibrator which allows you to calibrate using a densitometer see C hapter 3 You can modify printing results using C olorW ise features Depending on your particular needs you can e Set the behavior of CMYK printing
142. o Custom Sim Select Destination Profile Select Output Profile Save as EPS Print 2 15 Advanced workflows Photoshop 5 x Built in RGB to CMYK workflow This workflow is useful for prepress environments that have not integrated ICC color management and do not have profiles for the presses they use In this example an image is converted from RGB to CMYK using the Photoshop 5 x 6 0 Built in color conversion featuresin the CM YK Setup option For more information on CM YK Setup see your Photoshop 5 x documentation Using the Simulation settings available in ColorW ise the CM YK imageis printed to the Fiery 3850C and the output is made to appear as if it were printed on an offset press This document could be created as follows e Select the Built in option from CM YK Setup in Photoshop 5 x 6 0 Color Settings e Adjust the Ink Options and Separation O ptions to match your offset press e Select theTables option in CM YK Setup and click Save T his saves your settings asa CM YK ICC profile that you will later download to the Fiery 3850C as a custom simulation profile e Select the Built in option in CM YK Setup again and click OK e Launch ColorW ise Pro Tools and download your new CM YK ICC profile to the Fiery 3850C as a custom Simulation profile For the Appear in D river as option in Profile Settings select Simulation 1 For more information on downloading profiles see page 4 5 e Open an RGB imagein Photoshop 5 x
143. occurs on your computer as opposed to the Fiery 3850C One advantage of using C olorW ise color management over desktop color management is that your computer is spared added processing D elaying color conversions until the color data reaches the Fiery 3850C frees your computer so you can continue working and color conversions on the Fiery 3850C are in most cases much faster than similar conversions on a host computer M anaging most or all of your color on the Fiery 3850C can also eliminate the potential for undesirable color management reated conflicts such as iterative color conversions and inconsistent color The Fiery 3850C applies global corrections to specific groups of RGB CMYK and PANTONE colors to avoid such conflicts 2 3 Simple workflows Finally by sending RGB files instead of larger CM YK files from applications to the Fiery 3850C network traffic is minimized and jobs generally print faster ColorW ise uses ICC profiles to convert colors to the printer gamut or simulate other devices such as an offset printing press C olorW ise manages color conversions for all users printing to the Fiery 3850C from Windows and M ac O S computers It lets users follow a simple workflow with minimal intervention using robust default settings while giving advanced users the control and precision they need The Fiery 3850C can intelligently manage the printed appearance of RGB CMYK and PANTONE colors You can let the Fiery 3850C manage
144. of PANTONE colors O ff instructs the Fiery 3850C to match color output to a PAN TO NE specified CMYK combination see page 1 9 D etailed explanations of how these and other settings affect your print jobs are provided in subsequent sections of this chapter 1 4 Fiery 3850C Color Management Rendering styles The Rendering Style option specifiesa CRD for color conversions You can modify the Rendering Style option to control the appearance of images such as prints from office applications or RGB photographs from Photoshop The Fiery 3850C lets you select from the four rendering styles currently found in industry standard ICC profiles Equivalent Fiery 3850C rendering style Best used for ICC rendering style Photographic Typically results in Photographs including scans and Image less saturated output than images from stock photography Contrast and presentation rendering when printing CDs Perceptual out of gamut colors It preserves tonal relationships in images Presentation C reates saturated Artwork and graphs in Saturation colors but does not match printed presentations In many casesit can Graphics colors precisely to displayed colors be used for mixed pages that In gamut colors such as flesh tones contain both presentation graphics are rendered well similar to the and photographs Photographic rendering style Relative Colorimetric Provides Advanced use when color Relative white point transformati
145. offset press e RGB CMYK and PANTONE color systems e Desktop color management within an application versus color management on the Fiery 3850C along with the notion that different versions of desktop applications handle color management differently It is important to pay close attention to the version of a particular application when considering the workflows in this chapter Short run printing versus color proofing Short run color printing refers to those jobs for which the Fiery 3850C is the final print device Printing jobs to the Fiery 3850C in preparation for printing on an offset press is referred to as color proofing Both types of Fiery 3850C print jobs use RGB CMYK and PANTONE colors e For short run jobs bright saturated colors are often desirable T hese are achieved by using the full range of colors available referred to as the full gamut of the printer or more simply printer CM YK See Advanced Workflows on page 2 7 for short run printing examples e Offset jobs proofed on the Fiery 3850C require the printed colors to match those from another set of CM YK printing conditions Colors specified for an offset press require CM YK simulation optimized for proofing on the printer See Advanced Workflows on page 2 7 for color proofing examples that simulate the gamut of another digital printer or press standard 2 2 Simple and Advanced Workflows RGB CMYK and PANTONE colors Colors can be defined in several d
146. ofile is saved to the Fiery 3850C with the new name If you edit one of the press standard targets for example SW O P Coated DIC or Euroscale you may want to include the original name as part of the new target name for example DIC new to help you remember the source of the new target Note Preset default profiles are locked and must be saved with a new name Custom profiles must be linked to one of the 10 predefined custom profile names Simulation 1 through Simulation 10 for Simulation or O utput 1 through O utput 10 for O utput in order to be accessible from the printer driver You can create as many custom profiles as you want but a maximum of 10 are available from the printer driver at any one time See D efining profiles on page 4 8 for information on linking custom profiles to the predefined custom profile names If you set a custom profile as the default you can access it from the printer driver without linking it to one of the predefined custom names Select Printers default from the printer driver Undoing simulation edits You can undo the changes you made to simulations master and linked in these ways e If you have not yet saved your edits click Done on the Color Editor menu bar and do not save the changes e If you saved your edits under anew simulation name and want to delete all edits to the simulation see page 4 7 e If you saved your edits under anew simulation name and want to undo the edits to o
147. olor Management dialog boxes are located in Tools gt C olor M anagement On MacOS computers the Color M anagement functions are located in Edit Preferences Global 9 13 CorelDRAW for Windows and Mac OS Note If you do not want to use color management in CorelD raw do not select options under Color M anagement and Color M anagement G eneral and select N one from the Composite Printer pop up menu under Color M anagement Profiles Importing images All RGB images placed in a document are affected by your RGB Source and Rendering Style settings in the PPD For best results with placed images use the instructions in Importing images on page 9 2 and CM YK simulation on page 9 2 Selecting options when printing On Windows computers in the Print dialog box under the G eneral tab make sure the correct printer and PPD are selected and select the Use PPD check box Click Properties to specify Fiery 3850C print options Print device name appears here Printer driver PPD name appears here Print E AE General Layout Separations Prepress PostScript Misc D 2 Issues Destination te J aa So Click Properties to access Type PPD Use PPD Fiery 3850C print options Status Ready Where 10 11 128 6 PRINT Comment Print to file gt Print range Copies i z Current document 5 Documents Nanberenecries i 4 i Current page gt Selection pa Pane f iL alel 513
148. olor Management information was included Office applications lack finesse when displaying EPS files so use these files only if RGB colors are not practical in your specific workflow EPS files are also useful when using large or complex images that need to be printed at full resolution or cannot fit some M icrosoft O ffice configurations with limited memory Working with imported files Although your application may allow you to import a variety of file formats EPS files are recommended for all raster images you want to import some applications have printing problems when using file formats such as TIFF and PICT Note You may haveto perform a custom install of your office application if you are unable to import EPS elements 6 2 Office Applications Although there are no color management options within office applications color conversions do occur when you import images or page dements that were not defined in RGB To avoid such conversions with imported files use the EPS file format for artwork that is to be imported into office applications All RGB images placed in a document are affected by RGB Source and Rendering Style settings Tip for advanced users If you place multiple RGB images mixed non photographic and photographic a single CRD may not be suitable for all the images In this case you may want the photographic images to bypass the CRD altogether To accomplish this save the image in CMYK mode with a pixel
149. olor Reference described on page 5 6 prints differently depending on the Spot Color M atching setting e On T he Fiery 3850C uses a built in table to generate the best matches of the PANTONE colors that your printer can produce The PAN TONE number is printed below each swatch e Off TheFiery 3850C prints swatches using the CM YK values recommended by PAN TONE and used by applications that provide PAN TONE color libraries The CM YK values used to generate the color as well as the PANTONE number of the color are printed below each swatch T hese CM YK values are printed through the selected CM YK Simulation and O utput Profile settings 1 11 Printer drivers and print options Printer drivers and print options This section describes the role of the printer driver and explains how to use Windows and M ac OS PostScript printer drivers for Fiery 3850C printing PCL printer drivers are also available but they support only a few of the color features described in this manual To take full advantage of the color management features use the PostScript printer drivers Note Theterm PostScript by itself is used to refer to Adobe PostScript Level 2 or later What a printer driver does To take full advantage of the features of the Fiery 3850C your print jobs must be sent as PostScript data Since most applications cannot generate PostScript data directly it is the function of a printer driver to interpret instructions from the a
150. olor indicates whether that color is visible on the graph and will be affected by changes to the curves brightness and dot gain controls You can view and edit all four colors cyan magenta yellow and black at once or any combination thereof Working with only one or two colors at atime helps you fine tune your adjustments To turn off a color click its eye icon In the example below cyan and magenta are visible and can be edited Click Dot Gain to adjust the dot gain value for simulating press output North American Gain at 50 0 All gt European Gain areis fiz J Gan atsiz OF I zi Cancel Choose either the N orth American or European standard T hen use the sliders to select the desired D ot Gain The range of values for N orth American at 50 input are from 0 to 50 gain on output e Therange of values for European at 40 input arefrom 0 to 59 gain on output the range of values for European at 80 input are from 0 to 20 gain on output 4 15 Color Editor If you use D ot Gain values you should apply the settings first so that the curves are deflected from their straight line positions T hen make edits to the new curves When you adjust D ot Gain values all existing points on the curve are removed A warning dialog box gives you the chance to cancel D ot Gain settings before they are applied 7 Use the plus and minus buttons to adjust brightness Changes to the
151. on between matching isimportant but you Colorimetric the source and destination white prefer white colors in the points For example the bluish gray document to print as paper white of a monitor will map to neutral gray It may also be used with PostScript You may prefer this style to avoid color management to affect visible borders when not printing CMYK data for simulation full bleed purposes Absolute Colorimetric Provides no Situations when exact colors are Absolute white point transformation between needed and visible borders arenot Colorimetric the source and destination white distracting It may also be used points For example the bluish gray with PostScript color management of a monitor will map to a bluish to affect CM YK data for gray simulation purposes 1 5 Managing color on the Fiery 3850C RGB Source Profile The RGB Source Profile setting allows you to define the characteristics of the RGB data in your document so the appropriate color conversion can occur on the Fiery 3850C Commonly used monitor color spaces are available from the driver and from the ColorW ise Pro Tools Profile M anager For special needs you can use ColorW ise Pro Tools to download custom monitor or scanner profiles W hen you specify a setting other than N one for the RGB Source Profile the Fiery 3850C overrides source color space definitions or profiles that other color management systems may have specified
152. on set 3 35 Calibrating with ColorWise Pro Tools and DTP32 ED 100 Expert Mode Expert M ode offers two additional options Print Pages and View M easurements Calibrator Aero of x Standard Expert 1 Select Measurement Method 3 Generate Measurement Page X Rite DTP41 z Print 2 Check Print Settings 4 Get Measurements r Calibration Set Measure From File Resolution 600x600 dpi x Calibrated 4 11 02 12 00 00 PM Bari u neues onions By User Default Method Default Comparison Pages x Print 6 View Measurements optional Measurements Table E View Restore Device Save to File Enpi Done With the Print Pages option you can print a calibration Comparison Page showing the results of the new measurements with any profile associated with the currently selected calibration set You can also create a custom comparison page and save it as a PostScript or an Encapsulated PostScript EPS file called CALIB PS Then you can print the file to the H old Q ueue of the Fiery 3850C from your application or download it to the H old Queue with Command WorkStation In addition you can create the CALIB PS file by renaming any job in the H old Queue using Command WorkStation aper Size LTR A4 Input Tray Auto Select x I Sample Image Page User downloaded CALIB PS in Hold Queue Use Output Profile Fiery R7 VIF Print Cancel 3 36 Color Cali
153. on the strip so that the patches are directly under the alignment mark Insert the strip past the front idler rollers until it stops against the rear drive rollers approximately 3 inches Click Read Strip when ready Status Port COM2 ees arerio Next 13 Once the measurement page is read Calibrator instructs you to insert and align the page again for the next color Repeat the measurement process for the magenta yellow and black strips Measurements X Rite DTP 41 x Instructions Measure the magenta strip Position the strip so that the patches are directly under the alignment mark Insert the strip past the front idler rollers until it stops against the rear drive rollers approximately 3 inches Click Read Strip when ready Status Status field indicates color The cyan strip was read successfully was measured successfully Port COM2 YU ey Previous and Next buttons let you advance or reverse to repeat a measurement A check mark appears on the circle of the color just read and the Status field indicates that color was measured successfully You can use the Previous and N ext buttons on the M easurements window to reverse or advance to another step in the measurement sequence to repeat a measurement 3 22 Color Calibration 14 When the Status field indicates that all four color strips have been read successfully click Accept Measurements Measurement
154. ond VisualCal page Gray Balance provides the basis for calculating a neutral gray balance that is a CM Y gray that as closely as possible matches a pure K black gray produced by the printer s engine T his page consists of rows of CM Y gray patches on a field of gray produced solely from black T he variables needed to calculate the printer s most neutral gray balance are determined by identifying the CM Y patch that best matches this field and entering its row and column location on the control panel W hen the values have been entered the printer s gray balance is recalculated TO PERFORM VISUALCAL CALIBRATION 1 At the Idle screen press the Menu button to enter the Functions menu 2 Choose Calibration and choose Set Up Calibration If a password is set on the Fiery 3850C enter it and pressOK 3 For Calibration Mode select Standard or Expert Expert M ode adds the option to print a Comparison Page see page 3 35 4 For Measurement Method chose VisualCal 5 Back at the main calibration screen select Calibrate 6 Press Yes to print the Limits and 30 Match page To reset the printer s toner density and luminosity settings follow the instructions provided on the Limits and 30 M atch page Use the touch screen to change numbers do not use the numerical keypad Note Zero 0 and 9 are unacceptable values for color calibration If you select 0 for any of the colors the resulting calibration will be inaccu
155. ons when printing 7 13 Advanced tips for printing with Photoshop PostScript color management 7 15 x Contents Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Photoshop 4 x 7 17 D efining colors 7 17 Saving files for importing into other documents 7 17 Selecting options when printing 7 19 Page Layout Applications Working with page layout applications 8 1 D efining colors 8 1 Importing images 8 2 CMYK simulation 8 3 Adobe PageMaker 7 x and 6 5 for Mac OS and Windows 8 3 PageM aker color settings 8 3 Windows version requirement 8 4 Importing images 8 4 Selecting options when printing 8 4 Optional Color M anagement from PageM aker 8 6 QuarkXPress 4 x for Mac OS and Windows 8 6 Importing images 8 7 Selecting options when printing 8 7 O ptional Color Management from Q uarkX Press 8 8 QuarkXPress 3 32 for Mac OS and Windows 8 8 Windows version requirement 8 8 Importing images 8 9 Selecting options when printing 8 9 Illustration Applications Working with illustration applications 9 1 D efining colors 9 1 Importing images 9 2 CMYK simulation 9 2 xi Appendix A Contents Adobe Illustrator for Windows and Mac OS 9 3 Illustrator 9 x color settings 9 3 Specifying print options 9 3 Illustrator 8 x color settings 9 6 Specifying print options 9 6 Saving files for importing into other documents 9 8 FreeHand 9 x and 8 x for Windows and Mac OS 9 9 FreeH and color settings 9 9 D efining colors 9 10 Importing images 9 10
156. or also has these Edit M odes for editing simulations Master Create a custom maser simulation that affects all print jobs to which it is applied unless a linked simulation exists for the selected combination of simulation profile simulation method and output profile With CRD Create custom linked simulations Linked simulations affect the print job only if the corresponding simulation profile and output profile are selected If you choose an output profile for which you have created a custom linked simulation that simulation is applied automatically to the job If you choose a simulation method or output profile for which there is no custom linked simulation then the master simulation is automatically applied With CRD implies that the conversion is according to the CRD or rendering style that you select Note If you made edits to a master simulation after you created a linked simulation the edits are not applied to the linked simulation 4 12 ColorWise Pro Tools TO EDIT A SIMULATION PROFILE IN MASTER MODE OR AN OUTPUT PROFILE IN CUSTOM MODE 1 Launch ColorWise Pro Tools and click Color Editor 2 Choose Simulation or Output from the View pop up menu Simulation lists the simulation profiles resident on the Fiery 3850C and O utput lists the output profiles resident on the Fiery 3850C Description Modified Swop25 icc 4 27 99 4 13 09 PM DIC EFI 2 9 99 11 28 17 AM Euroscale EFI 2 9 99 4 10 31 P
157. ord fileand aM icrosoft PowerPoint file are provided with your Fiery 3850C user software Print these files using different CRD sto see how the colors appear when printed to the Fiery 3850C For best results print the color reference page using the same print options you plan to use for your final document Select the colors you want to use from the printed version of the RGB color reference page and then use those colors in your document RGB Color Reference Fritt th page to we for reference when desigringf iles forprnting RGB Color Reference Microsoft PowerPoint 5 5 PostScript applications PostScript applications M ost applications used for illustration pixel editing and page layout can create the PostScript information they send to PostScript printer or save in PostScript files Illustrator Photoshop PageM aker Q uarkX Press and M acromedia F reeH and are all PostScript applications PostScript applications work with color in many different ways M ost allow you to choose process colors by entering percentages for cyan magenta yellow and black in addition to named colors from a custom color system such as PAN TONE When you print composites these applications send process color equivalents for named spot colors to the printer In some applications you can also choose colors using the RGB HSB HSL or other color models Generally PostScript applications send color information to the Fiery 3850C as CM Y
158. ost importance or for images containing sharp diagonal lines To find the best image resolution for your purposes make test prints of some raster artwork at different resolutions Start with a high resolution image 400 ppi and save versions at progressively lower resolutions down to 100 ppi using a pixel editing application such as Photoshop Always save a copy of the original high resolution version in case you need to revert to it The high resolution data cannot be recreated from a lower resolution version Print the files and examine the output You will likely begin to see a marked deterioration in output quality at resolutions below 200 ppi while above 200 ppi the improvement may be very subtle 100 ppi 200 ppi 300 ppi 400 ppi 500 ppi 600 ppi Image resolution Raster images prepared for offset printing may need to be at higher resolutions than needed for proofing on your Fiery 3850C A 12 Desktop Color Primer Scaling Ideally each raster image should be saved at the actual size and it will be placed into the document at the optimal resolution for the print device If the image resolution is correct for the print device there is no quality advantage to be gained by scaling an image down to a percentage of its actual size If you scale a large image down to a percentage of its actual size you incur unnecessary file transfer time because the image data for the entire large image is sent to the printer If an imageis placed mu
159. output device that can print directly in color without first creating color separations A composite print can be used as an early proof of an offset print job continuous tone contone Describes a photographic image that contains gradient tones from black to white such asa 35mm transparency or a photograph C ontinuous tones cannot be reproduced in that form for printing but must be screened to translate the image into dots continuous tone contone image An image containing fine gradations of tones such as a photographic image CRD Color Rendering Dictionary A feature of color managenent systems and PostScript Level 2 and PostScript 3 color printers that maintains the best possible translation of color from one color device to another A color rendering dictionary CRD is used by the color management system or the printer s PostScript interpreter when converting data between color spaces TheFiery 3850C includesseveral CRD s each of which provides a different color rendering style custom color system A system of named color swatches that can be matched on press using process or spot colors PANTONE and TruM atch are examples of custom color systems G 3 Glossary DCS Desktop Color Separation A data file standard defined by Quark Inc to assist in making color separations with desktop publishing system five files are created four color files one each for C M Y and K and a composte color preview
160. over Page Color Matching Choose Color Matching from Layout __ the pull down menu Epu SOUL esfrom Auto Select PostScript Settings Printer Specific Options Age from AutoSelect Remaining from AutoSelect i Save Settings AN Print In the Color M atching pane choose C olor Grayscale from the Print C olor pull down menu Tiimi Printer Destination Print Color Color Grayscale Choose Color Grayscale Frimler Pranie Frosterus Detaull Ce AN 1 19 Printer drivers and print options In the Printer Specific O ptions pane choose settings for the print options described on page 1 2 U7 EC Printer AERO Priest If these settings are ones you use regularly click Save Settings to save them for subsequent jobs Chapter 2 Simple and Advanced Workflows 2 1 Workflow concepts This chapter discusses color management workflows used in short run color printing as well as color proofing on the Fiery 3850C It also gives examples of color management in specific desktop applications and discusses the interaction between those applications and C olorW ise color management Workflow concepts Theterm workflow is used to describe the path ajob follows from its creation in a desktop application to final printed output It is helpful to think of the following categories when describing workflows e Short run printing versus color proofing for eventual output on an
161. p Printing CMYK images with Photoshop PostScript Color Management If you select a CM YK color space and decide to use PostScript Color M anagement from the Photoshop pane of the printer driver Photoshop sends CM YK data to the Fiery 3850C along with PostScript color information defining thisCM YK color space Remember that when you select PostScript Color Management a CRD will be used to perform color conversions to the CM YK color space of the Fiery 3850C As for the destination color space for the CRDs the CM YK image is converted to the CM YK color space of the selected output profile The Spot Color M atching setting has no effect because Photoshop converts PANTONE colorsto CM YK values when you work in CMYK mode e If the image was separated for an offset press standard apply the corresponding CM YK Simulation setting For example if the image is separated for SW O P choose SW OP astheCM YK Simulation setting e If Photoshop is configured for a custom separation using ICC profiles select the corresponding profile from the CM YK Simulation print option for the Fiery 3850C Note T he above custom simulation setting requires that the same profile used for separation in Photoshop also resides on the Fiery 3850C For more information on downloading CM YK Simulation profiles to the Fiery 3850C with ColorW ise Pro Tools see page 4 5 7 17 Photoshop 4 x Photoshop 4 x A special feature of Photoshop allows you to save RGB EPS
162. photometer 3 11 Calibrating with ColorWise Pro Tools and DTP41 3 16 Using a densitometer 3 25 Setting up the ED 100 densitometer 3 25 Setting up the X Rite D T P32 densitometer 3 25 Calibrating the X Rite D T P32 densitometer 3 28 Calibrating with ColorWise Pro Tools and DTP32 ED 100 3 29 Expert M ode 3 35 ColorWise Pro Tools Profile Manager 4 1 Setting the default profiles 4 3 Downloading profiles 4 5 Editing profiles 4 6 M anaging profiles 4 7 D efining profiles 4 8 Color Editor 4 11 Editing profiles 4 11 Undoing simulation edits 4 16 Checking edited profiles 4 18 ix Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Contents Color Setup 4 19 Setting default C olorW ise options 4 19 Working with Color in Applications Working with color 5 1 Color reference pages 5 2 Office applications 5 3 Choosing colors in office applications 5 4 PostScript applications 5 5 Choosing colors in PostScript applications 5 5 D efault output profile 5 7 CMYK simulation 5 7 Office Applications Working with office applications 6 1 D efining colors 6 1 Working with imported files 6 1 Selecting options when printing 6 2 Output profiles 6 2 Adobe Photoshop Specifying color settings 7 1 Photoshop 6 x color settings 7 1 Photoshop 5 x 7 4 Photoshop 5 x color settings 7 4 C olorSync defaults 7 10 D efining colors 7 11 Saving files for importing into other documents 7 11 Advanced tips for using PostScript color management 7 12 Selecting opti
163. pplication and convert them to PostScript data A PostScript printer driver also allows you to select print options specific to your printer To do this the printer driver must be matched with a PostScript printer description file PPD for your Fiery 3850C ThePPD contains information about the particular features supported by the Fiery 3850C and theprinter You can think of the PPD asthe lines of PostScript code in the file that are device specific W hen you print ajob the printer driver lets you choose among features by displaying print options A few PostScript applications can send PostScript data directly to the printer and present print options within the application interface Even these applications however require that you use a PostScript printer driver See Getting Started for information on installing printer drivers Werecommend you set the print options initially in Fiery 3850C Setup see the Configuration Guide T his provides you with a default configuration that is appropriate for most Fiery 3850C print jobs 1 12 Fiery 3850C Color Management PostScript printer driver for Windows computers You can access the printer driver options described in this section by clicking Start Settings Printers right clicking the appropriate printer and selecting Properties Windows 9x M e Document D efaults Windows N T or Printing Preferences Windows 2000 from the pop up menu T hese settings are also accessible from the Print S
164. print options affecting color output see page 1 1 Color reference pages Fiery 3850C user software includes several types of color reference pages that let you see the range of colors that can be printed on your printer For predictable color use the color reference pages when defining the colors in your document e RGB Color Reference a M icrosoft Word file and aM icrosoft PowerPoint file that let you view the colors available in the standard palettes of office applications and see how those colors print on the Fiery 3850C see page 5 4 e CMYK Color Reference an 11 page downloadable PostScript file of CM YK color patches see page 5 6 e PANTONE Coated Color Reference a 19 page downloadable PostScript file of color patches showing CM YK equivalents of PAN TONE Coated colors T his file prints differently depending on the setting of the Spot Color M atching option see page 5 6 In addition you can print RGB CMY and PANTONE color charts from the Fiery 3850C Control Pand 5 3 Office applications Office applications The Fiery 3850C must receive PostScript instructions to print an image or a document M any applications do not create these PostScript instructions relying on the printer driver to create them Included in this category are most word processors spreadsheets and presentation applications T hese applications use W indows Graphics Device Interface GD I to display and print when running Windows and Apple
165. r For Mac OS the default directory is System Folder Preferences C olorSync Profiles for ColorSync 2 0 and System Folder C olorSync Profiles for ColorSync 2 5 or later If the profile you want does not appear click Browse to go to a different directory Browse to the directory containing the profile you want to download and click OK Select Directory x Directories c windows system color LE Cancel Bes a amp WINDOWS Network SYSTEM Drives c be When the profile you want to download appears in the list in the main Profile Manager window select it If the profile is compatible with the Fiery 3850C a green arrow indicates that the profile is available for download O nly output device profiles are downloadable to Simulation and O utput O nly input device profiles are downloadable to RGB Source 4 6 ColorWise Pro Tools Note On Windows computers the profiles must have an extension of icc or icm to be listed On M ac OS computers the profiles must havea file type of profile AIl ICC profiles in the sdected directory on your computer are displayed in the list in the main Profile M anager window H owever because a profile is listed does not necessarily mean it can be downloaded to the Fiery 3850C Simulation profiles should be only profiles of devices for which you want the Fiery 3850C to match in terms of color output characteristics O utput profiles should be only profiles of the device to which your F
166. r 1 Optional Color Management from QuarkXPress If you have additional color management requirements not offered by C olorW ise such as managing color on non Fiery 3850C devices consider using the Q uarkX Press color management features For more information see your Q uarkX Press documentation QuarkXPress 3 32 for Mac OS and Windows Before starting Q uarkX Press 3 32 make sure the EfiC olor XTension is not loaded in the XTensions folder EFICOLOR profiles are not currently provided with Fiery 3850C products Without the correct EFICOLOR profile the EfiC olor XTension cannot perform color conversions on placed images Windows version requirement For the W indows version of Q uarkX Press make sure a copy of the Fiery 3850C PPD fileisin the XPRESS PD F folder 8 9 QuarkXPress 3 32 for Mac OS and Windows Importing images All RGB images placed in a document are affected by your RGB Source and Rendering Style settings For best results with placed images use the instructions in Importing images on page 8 2 and CM YK simulation on page 8 3 Selecting options when printing Select the Fiery 3850C PPD from the Printer Type menu in the Page Setup M ac OS or Printer Setup Windows dialog box Mac OS Printer Aero_Hold Printer Type PPD name Paper Offset 8 7 2 104 Choose the Fiery 3850C PPD EfiColor Profile Paper Width GCR Page Gap Resolution 600 dpi Halftoning
167. r describes the options available from the C olorWise color management system and explains how to customize the color settings for your particular needs It provides descriptions of the preset C olorW ise default settings and covers additional options for users who need to customize C olorW ise Beginning on page 1 11 there is a detailed explanation of what a PostScript Level 2 or PostScript 3 printer driver does as well as information on the capabilities of various printer drivers and instructions for setting color options with the PostScript drivers for Windows and M ac OS computers PCL printer drivers are also available but they support only afew of the color features described in this manual To take full advantage of the color management features use the PostScript printer drivers Note If you use Windows XP follow the procedures for Windows 2000 Managing color on the Fiery 3850C You can modify the Fiery 3850C printing behavior in several ways e Select ColorW ise options for an individual print job using menus that appear from the printer driver e Select most C olorW ise options as server defaults from the C olor Setup application in ColorW ise Pro Tools see page 4 19 D efaults can also be set from Fiery 3850C Setup or from the Control Panel as described in the Configuration Guide These defaults apply to all subsequent print jobs unless you override then e Select some C olorW ise options particularly default ICC profile
168. r information are required per pixel yielding 256 levels of red green and blue For CM YK images 32 bits per pixel are required W hen printing raster artwork the quality of the output depends on the resolution of the source raster If the raster resolution is too low individual pixels become visible in the printed output as small squares T his effect is sometimes called pixelation In vector images picture objects are defined mathematically as lines or curves between points hence the term vector color example 11b Picture dements can have solid gradient or patterned color fills Vector artwork is created in illustration and drawing applications such as Illustrator and CorelD RAW Page layout applications such as QuarkXPress also allow you to create simple vector artwork with their drawing tools PostScript fonts are vector based as well Vector artwork is resolution independent it can be scaled to any size and resolution without danger of pixels becoming visible in printed output A 10 Desktop Color Primer Optimizing files for processing and printing T he following sections provide tips on how to create image files that produce the highest possible print quality while minimizing the processing time and disk space they require Resolution of raster images W hile a 72 ppi raster image appears sharp on a monitor the same image would likely appear pixelated when printed to the Fiery 3850C Color print devices a
169. rate If the entered value for any color is 9 the Limits and 30 M atch page is reprinted automatically Re enter values for all color rows starting with Black Start When you have finished entering all values the PRINT GRAYS screen appears 3 7 Using a spectrophotometer 7 Press Yes to print the Gray Balance page To reset the printer s gray balance follow the instructions provided on the Gray Balance page W hen you have finished entering all values the PRINT COLOR TEST screen appears Note If theG ray Balance page is printed after the Limits calculations have been made the gray field on which the CM Y patches appear on the Limits page will use the new density and luminosity calibration settings Select Yes to print a color test page that uses the original values CURRENT COLOR TEST PAGE and a Color test that uses the new values NEW COLOR TEST PAGE and use the up and down arrows to select YES Press Enter to print the pages 8 If you are satisfied with the printer s calibration based on the new values select YES from the APPLY CHANGES screen that appears and press OK to calibrate the printer based on the previously entered values 9 Choose Exit Calibration to return to the Functions menu Use the following suggestions for adjusting VisualC al for your specific preferences e If your print seem to be color balanced but too dark enter a lower value for the 30 M atch entry on the Limits and 30 M atch page last row
170. re capable of much greater detail than monitors and require correspondingly higher resolution image files H owever high resolution files can be large and therefore cumbersome to transmit over a network process for printing store on disk and edit Beyond a certain threshold a higher image resolution greatly increases file size while having a minimal effect on output quality T he optimal image resolution depends on the resolution of the final print device Aim for the resolution that optimizes both file size and output quality The resolution of a raster image along with its bit depth and physical dimensions determine its file size T he following table shows the file sizes of color raster images at different dimensions and resolutions File size at pen 100 ppi 150 ppi 200 ppi 400 ppi 600 ppi RGB CMYK RGB CMYK RGB CMYK RGB CMYK RGB CMYK 3 x 4 0 4 0 5 MB 0 8 1 0 MB 1 4 1 8 MB 5 5 7 3 MB 12 4 16 5 MB 5 x7 1 0 1 3 MB 2 3 3 0MB 4 0 5 3 MB 16 0 21 4MB 36 1 48 1 MB 8 5 x 11 2 7 36MB 6 0 8 0MB 10 7 143MB 42 8 57 1MB 96 4 128 5MB 1 x 17 5 4 7 1MB 12 0 16 1MB 21 4 285MB 85 6 114 1MB 192 7 256 9MB Image quality A 11 Desktop Color Primer In this table the shaded areas indicate that 200 ppi is typically the best trade off between image quality and file size H owever higher resolutions for example 250 to 300 ppi may be needed for offset printing when quality is of the utm
171. ress Read Reference Status fr Read Reference Port COM2 Dore 3 16 Color Calibration Click Done Instrument Calibration X Rite DTP 41 x m Instructions Take the Color Reflective Reference number 03085 out of its protective sleeve and center the designated end of the reference under the alignment mark Slowly insert the strip past the front idler rollers until it comes to rest against the rear rollers approximately 3 inches Push the Reference strip firmly then press Read Reference Status Status field indicates DTP41 was calibrated successfully i instrument calibration successfully completed Port COM2 Done Cancel 14 Close the Utilities window This completes DT P41 calibration W hen the DT P41 requires calibration your computer prompts you Error X Rite DTP 41 x The X Rite DTP 41 requires calibration at this time Press Calibrate Now to begin calibration of the DTP 41 Press Cancel to return to the DTP 41 main window Calirote Now arca W hen this dialog box appears click Calibrate N ow and follow the instructions starting with step 9 on page 3 14 After calibrating the DT P41 calibrate the Fiery 3850C see page 3 16 Calibrating with ColorWise Pro Tools and DTP41 Using the ColorW ise Pro Tools Calibrator application and the DT P41 3 17 Calibrating with ColorWise Pro Tools and DTP41 spectrophotometer
172. rightness and Contrast ST Phosphors Phosphors Trinitron gt Gamma View Single Gamma Only Desired Windows Default White Point Hardware 6500 K daylight x Measure j Adjusted Same as Hardware ne Adobe 7 7 Photoshop 5 x Profile Setup From the Photoshop 5 x File menu choose C olor Settings gt Profile Setup Profile Setup Embed Profiles g MRGB MCMYK M Grayscale MLab Assumed Profiles RGB Ask When Opening oj o CMYK Ask When Opening Grayscale Ask When Opening gt J Profile Mismatch Handling RGB Ask When Opening 2 J CMYK Ask When Opening J Grayscale Ask When Opening gt J In the Embed Profiles area select all boxes to embed the appropriateI CC profile when saving a file By embedding a profile during the saving process Photoshop can link a color space working space definition with that file for future use W hen you open an image that already contains a profile Photoshop can alert you as to which color space the file was saved in Be aware that you should avoid conversions between color spaces as much as possible each conversion results in loss of color information In the Assumed Profiles area choose Ask W hen Opening from the RGB and CMYK menus When you open files that do not contain an ICC profile you can convert the fileto your current Photos
173. rinter drivers are provided with the Fiery 3850C but they support only a few of the color features described in this manual To take full advantage of the color management features use the PostScript printer drivers Words in bold for example output profile are terms that appear in the glossary The bibliography at the end of this manual provides sources for further investigation of color printing issues xiv Introduction nu Color terms and concepts such as RGB data color space spot color gamut and source profile are used throughout this manual If you are new to desktop color or if any terms are unfamiliar read Appendixes A and B or check the glossary This manual is part of a set of Fiery 3850C documentation that also includes the following manuals for users and system administrators e The Configuration Guide explains basic configuration and administration of the Fiery 3850C for the supported platforms and network environments It also includes guidelines for setting up UNIX Windows N T 2000 and N oval N Ware servers to provide Adobe PostScript printing services to clients Getting Started describes the process of installing the software that enables users to print to the Fiery 3850C Specifically it describes installation of printer drivers and other user software provided on the User Software CD It also explains how to connect each user to the network The Printing Guide describes the pri
174. ript O Selection Only J Force Fonts to Download Separation Setup Level 3 4 If necessary click Properties Windows or choose Printer Specific Options from the option menu Mac OS and choose RGB Source and Rendering Style settings for the Fiery 3850C You only need to specify these settings if you have a CM YK document containing placed RGB images or an RGB document in Illustrator 9 x In all other cases colors remain unaffected by the settings 5 If the document contains PANTONE named colors choose the appropriate Spot Color Matching setting Saving files for importing into other documents W hen saving files in Illustrator 9 x or 8 x for importing into other types of documents use the EPS file format Illustrator can save color information in both RGB and CMYK The ColorW ise RGB Source and Rendering Style settings affect color output of RGB artwork saved in Illustrator EPS and imported into other kinds of documents even when both RGB and CM YK artwork exists in the same file In the case of 9 9 FreeHand 9 x and 8 x for Windows and Mac OS Illustrator files imported into Photoshop however vector data from the Illustrator file is rasterized into bitmaps in Photoshop and the final color space of the bitmap data is determined by the color mode you set in Photoshop FreeHand 9 x and 8 x for Windows and Mac OS The information in this section applies to both the Windows and M ac OS versions of FreeH and 9 x a
175. rred from printing plates to a rubber blanket and then from the blanket to paper output profile The output profile describes the color characteristics of a printing device It consists of both a profile for your printer and a calibration target that defines the expected density response of the printer phosphor M aterial used in making computer monitors phosphors glow and emit red green and blue light when struck by an electron beam thus creating an image photographic rendering A color rendering style that preserves tonal relationships in images Unprintable colors are mapped to printable colors in a way that retains differences in lightness sacrificing color accuracy as necessary pixel The smallest distinct element of a raster image T he term is a combination of the words picture and element PostScript A device independent page description language developed by Adobe which is used to print and display pictures and text PostScript 3 includes many enhancements to older versions of Post Script including improved image quality and color with Enhanced Image Tech nology faster performance with Advanced Page Processing and ease of use and setup with N etWorks System PPD PostScript Printer Description file A file containing information about a particular PostScript print device s capabilities and restrictions The information in the PPD is presented via the printer driver prepress proof
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177. rting images EPS and TIFF are the recommended formats for images imported into page layout documents Support for importing other file formats may be provided by individual applications All RGB images placed in a document are affected by the RGB Source and Rendering Style settings T he Fiery 3850C color management system applies the specified RGB Source setting to all RGB data and then uses the specified Rendering Style CRD to perform a color conversion An exception to this occurs if you assign ICC profiles to RGB images using the application s color management tools see Tips for advanced users below In this case the application performs the color conversion of the image and sends CM YK data to the Fiery 3850C Note To take advantage of RGB Source and Rendering Style settings for images imported into Q uarkX Press 4 02 either save images in the EPS format or use the Quark PrintRGB XTension which outputs RGB TIFF image files without converting then to CMYK Tips for advanced users If you place multiple RGB images some non photographic and some photographic a single CRD may not be suitable for all the images In this case you may want the photographic images to bypass the CRD altogether To accomplish this separate the image to CM YK data with a pixel editing application such as Photoshop and perform color correction Save the fileas EPS or TIFF and import it into the document If your application supports this featur
178. rvice settings humidity and temperature it also tends to drift over time Regular measurement detects day to day variations in densities and calibration corrects for them Calibration works by creating calibration curves on the Fiery 3850C that compensate for the difference between actual measured and desired target density values Calibration curves are the graphic equivalent of transfer functions which are mathematical descriptions of changes that will be made to the data you start with Transfer functions are often graphed as input or output curves The Fiery 3850C generates calibration curves after comparing measured values to the final target values for each of the four toner colors T he target values are based on the output profile specified Measurements M easurement files contain numerical values that correspond to the toner density produced by the printer when it prints solid cyan magenta yellow and black and graduated tints of those colors To create a measurement file first print a page of color patches from ColorW ise Pro Tools Then you measure the patches using the EFI D ensitometer 100 the X Rite DT P41 spectrophotometer or an X Rite D T P32 densitometer connected to a computer on the network or the printer s scanner The new measurements are automatically downloaded to the Fiery 3850C 3 4 Color Calibration Output profiles and calibration sets Output profiles and calibration sets define desired calibr
179. s X Rite DTP 41 x Instructions Measure the black strip Position the strip so that the patches are directly under the alignment mark Insert the strip past the front idler rollers until it stops against the rear drive rollers approximately 3 inches Click Read Strip when ready Status The black strip was read successfully Port COM2 VY Previous Nev Click Accept Measurements 15 Accept Measurements Cancel In the Measure dialog box click OK The measurement process was successful 3 23 Calibrating with ColorWise Pro Tools and DTP41 16 In the Calibrator dialog box click Apply to implement the new calibration set a Calibrator Aero olx Standard Expert 1 Select Measurement Method Hite DIPAI 2 Check Print Settings Calibration Set Resolution 600x600 dpi x Calibrated 4 11 02 12 00 00 PM By User Default Method Default 3 Generate Measurement Page 4 Get Measurements Measure From File Click Apply Restore Device Apply Done 17 In the Information dialog box click OK Information x Calibration successfully completed This completes the Fiery 3850C calibration process 3 24 Color Calibration TO RESTORE DEFAULT CALIBRATION MEASUREMENTS 1 Launch ColorWise Pro Tools and click Calibrator 2 Click Restore Device Pa Calibrator Aero olx Standard Expert 1 Select
180. s color modds including H SB CIE Lab RGB and CMYK You can also choose named colors from the PANTONE Coated color library For best results use the color definition methods described in Chapter 5 Saving files for importing into other documents Before saving afile perform any rotating cropping and resizing needed T his speeds processing when printing from the application in which the image is placed We recommend you use EPS or TIFF file formats to save RGB images that will be imported into other documents and printed to the Fiery 3850C You can import EPS and TIFF filesinto virtually all page layout applications Note Although TIFF files display better when imported into other applications their color and resolution characteristics may be altered by the application into which they are imported EPS files are unaffected Gl Adobe Photoshop 5 0 Hard Disk Eject Z Save this document as Choose Photoshop EPS or TIFF Format Photoshop EPS 7 12 Adobe Photoshop In the EPS Options dialog box choose binary encoding and do not select PostScript Color M anagement see the following section for more information on PostScript Color M anagement D o not include transfer functions or halftone screens A TIFF preview is compatible with both Windows and M ac O S computers FPS Options Encoding Binary m O Include Halftone Screen Do not select these options O In
181. stration between the different toners on paper causes color text to lose definition You can make test prints to find the smallest point size at which color text prints clearly W hen using high end graphics applications that allow you to specify color as percentages of cyan magenta yellow and black you can create pure cyan or pure magenta text that prints with the same sharpness as black text Pure yellow text is extremely hard to read on anything but a dark or complenentary background A 9 Desktop Color Primer Raster images and vector images Two broad categories of artwork can be printed from a personal computer to a color printer raster and vector images A raster image also referred to as a bitmap is composed of a grid of pixels each assigned a particular color value color example 11a The grid when sufficiently enlarged resembles a mosaic made from square tiles Examples of raster images include scans and images created in painting or pixel editing applications such as Photoshop and Painter The amount of data found in a raster image depends on its resolution and bit depth The resolution of a raster describes the compactness of the pixels and is specified in pixels per inch ppi T he bit depth is the number of bits of information assigned to each pixel Black and white raster images require only one bit of information per pixel Grayscale images require 8 bits per pixel For photographic quality color 24 bits of RGB colo
182. strator QuarkXPress CMYK and PANTONE colors em Photoshop Illustrator QuarkXPress Printer driver ColorWise print options Define RGB Source Define CMYK Colors Define CMYK Colors Color Grayscale Select Rendering Style CRD Define PANTONE Colors Define PANTONE Colors Select RGB Mode Select Copier CMYK Simulation None Turn Spot Color Matching On Select Output Profile Save as EPS Save as EPS Print 2 11 Advanced workflows Photoshop RGB with Illustrator CMYK and PANTONE and PowerPoint RGB This workflow involves short run printing of a complex presentation document with images saved in Photoshop illustrations created in Illustrator and PANTONE spot colors All elements are imported into PowerPoint for output This document could be created as follows Create an RGB imagein Photoshop and save it as Photoshop EPS Create a graphic in Illustrator using CM YK colors and a PANTON E spot color and save as Illustrator EPS Create a presentation in PowerPoint using RGB colors Import the Illustrator EPS graphic into the PowerPoint presentation and place the Photoshop EPS image Print the PowerPoint document to the Fiery 3850C Use ColorWise to convert the PowerPoint RGB colors and Photoshop RGB image to printer CM YK to adjust the process colors for more saturated short run printing and to match the PAN TONE spot colors using the full printer gamut 2 12 Simple
183. such as managing color on non Fiery 3850C devices consider using the PageM aker color management features For more information see your PageM aker documentation QuarkXPress 4 x for Mac OS and Windows If you have additional color management requirements not offered by C olorW ise consider using Q uark CM S XTension for Q uarkX Press 4 02 T hese features allow advanced users to control RGB to CM YK color conversions If you plan to use these features make sure the Q uark CM S XTension isinstalled before starting Q uarkX Press If it isnot use the Q uark XTensions M anager to install it Refer to your Q uarkX Press documentation for instructions 8 7 QuarkXPress 4 x for Mac OS and Windows Note Quark CMS converts RGB TIFF JPEG and PICT images to CM YK before sending color data to the Fiery 3850C RGB Source and Rendering Style settings have no effect on this data unless you use Quark PrintRGB XTension which outputs RGB TIFF image files without converting then to CM YK Importing images With the exception of RGB images that are saved in EPS format or use Q uark PrintRGB XTension Q uarkX Press 4 02 converts all RGB data into CM YK even when Quark CM S XTension is disabled Only RGB images saved in EPS format are affected by RGB Source and Rendering Style settings For best results with placed images use the instructions in Importing images on page 8 2 and CM YK simulation on page 8 3 Selecting options when printing
184. t X Rite DTP 41 x Instructions field ee com E Select port for the DTP41 8 Click Utilities 9 Click Calibrate DTP 41 Utilities X Rite DTP 41 3 15 Using a spectrophotometer Note To view version and serial number information click Show DT P 41 Info W hen finished click Done Instrument Info X Rite DTP 41 x Software Version 9519 Boot Version 9519 Instrument SerialNumber HE Reflective Optics SerialNumber EERE Wheel Serial Number XNK Calibration Strip Serial Number 03085 DEM Serial Number 2 mammat 10 Remove the shipping spacer from the measurement page slot if you have not already done so 11 Insert the end of the Color Reflection Reference strip with the arrow into the calibration strip entrance on the DTP41 centering it below the alignment mark see the diagram on page 3 8 Insert the strip about 3 inches past the front idler rollers until it rests against the rear drive rollers 12 Click Read Reference The DTP41 will pull the calibration strip through automatically Instrument Calibration X Rite DTP 41 x Instructions Take the Color Reflective Reference number 03085 out of its protective sleeve and center the designated end of the reference under the alignment mark Slowly insert the strip past the front idler rollers until it comes to rest against the rear rollers approximately 3 inches Push the Reference strip firmly then p
185. tation when the Product is used as authorized by EFI sspecifications EFI warrants the media containing the Software against failure during the above warranty period EFI makes no warranty or representation that the Software will meet your specific requirements that the operation of the Software will be uninterrupted or error free or that all defects in the Software will be corrected EFI makes no warranty implied or otherwise regarding the performance or reliability of any third party products software or hardware not provided by EFI THE INSTALLATION OF ANY THIRD PARTY PRODUCTSOTHER THAN ASAUTHORIZED BY EFI WILL VOID THISWARRANTY IN ADDITION USE MODIFICATION AND OR REPAIR OF THE PRODUCT OTHER THAN AS AUTHORIZED BY EFI WILL VOID THIS WARRANTY EXCEPT FOR THE ABOVE EXPRESS LIMITED WARRANTY EFI M AKES AND YOU RECEIVE NO WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS ON THE SOFTWARE EXPRESS IMPLIED STATUTORY ORIN ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THISAGREEMENT OR COMMUNICATION WITH YOU AND EFI SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMSANY IM PLIED WARRANTY ORCONDITION OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NONINFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS Limitation of Liability TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW EFI AND ITS SUPPLIERS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES INCLUDING LOSS OF DATA LOST PROFITS COST OF COVER OR OTHER SPECIAL INCIDENTAL CONSEQUENTIAL OR INDIRECT DAMAGES ARISING FROM THE SALE INSTALLATION MAINTENANCE USE PERFORMANCE OR FAILURE OF THE SOFTWARE HOWEV
186. tches of the closest equivalents of PANTONE colors your printer can produce T he equivalent PAN TONE color name number is printed below each swatch Off Prints swatches of the CM YK equivalents of PANTONE colors as defined by PANTONE These are the same CM YK values defined in applications that include PAN TONE libraries The CM YK values used to produce the color as well as the PAN TONE color name numbe are printed below each swatch To print the PANTONE Coated Color Reference download the file to the Fiery 3850C For the location of the file on the User Software C D seeGatting Started If the default Spot C olor M atching setting on the Fiery 3850C isnot the setting you want to use for printing the PAN TONE colors download the file to the H old queue Then use Fiery WebSpooler or Command WorkStation to override the Spot Color M atching setting Default output profile T he default output profile consists of both a profile for your printer describing its color characteristics and a calibration target that describes the expected behavior of the printer at a particular print resolution 600x600 dpi or 1200x1200 dpi For more information on output profiles see page 1 6 In certain cases you may want to customize the default output profile to achieve particular color effects see page 4 11 W hen you do so the new customized output profile is applied to all data in the print job You can also use C olorW ise Pro Tools to
187. tent setting is used only when you convert between color spaces 7 10 Adobe Photoshop It is often better to select the Black Point Compensation option With many ICC profiles this check box has no effect H owever when it does it has a dramatic effect on the dark areas of your image If you want this effect leave Black Point Compensation if not clear the selection ColorSync defaults You should have C olorSync 2 5 x or later installed on your M ac OS computer The ICC profiles used by ColorSync are saved in System Folder C olorSync Profiles From the Apple menu choose Control Panel gt C olorSync ColorSync System Profile My monitor RGB Default EFIRGB CMYK Default SWOP Standard Preferred CMM LinoColor CMM Use the following settings System Profile choose the customized ICC profile for your monitor Set up the Adobe Gamma profile to ensure that your monitor profile is present M ac OS only RGB default choose the same RGB working color space you set in Photoshop 5 x Note T he System Profile is the same one used in your monitor calibration and your M onitors and Sounds control pand e CMYK default choose the same CM YK color space you set in Photoshop 5 x Preferred CMM choose LinoColor CMM both ColorSync 2 0 and M icrosoft ICM 2 0 are based on this color management module 7 11 Photoshop 5 x Defining colors You can choose colors in Photoshop with variou
188. th binary encoding until you see the printed results of the JPEG file Occasionally the compression used for JPEG encoding produces unwanted artifacts If you see unexpected results in the printed output of a JPEG file revert to the binary version Advanced tips for printing with Photoshop PostScript color management Usethe following information to implement alternate more complex color workflows with Photoshop Printing RGB images with Photoshop PostScript Color Management If you select an RGB color space and decide to use PostScript C olor M anagement from the Photoshop pane of the printer driver Photoshop sends RGB datato the Fiery 3850C along with PostScript color information defining this RGB color space Remember that when you select PostScript Color M anagement a CRD will be used to perform color conversionsto CM YK Note Theincluded RGB source color space information is overridden by the Fiery 3850C RGB Source option unless it is set to None With Photoshop 5 x the Fiery 3850C Rendering Style option specified will take effect if the Fiery 3850C RGB Source Profile option is set to N one For fastest print times choose JPEG encoding but check printed output carefully for unwanted artifacts that can appear as a result of JPEG compression If you see unexpected results in the printed output print the job again using Binary or ASCII encoding Choose other print options you want to use see Chapter 1 7 16 Adobe Photosho
189. the subtractive color modd Additive RGB color Color devices that use the additive color model make a range of colors by combining varying amounts of red green and blue light T hese colors are called the additive primaries color example 5 W hite is created by adding the maximum amount of red green and blue light available Black occurs wherever all three colors are absent G rays are created by adding equal amounts of all three colors together Combining varying amounts of any two of the additive primaries creates a third saturated hue A familiar device based on this color model isthe computer monitor color example 6 M onitors have red green and blue phosphors that emit varying amounts of light to display a given color Scanners create digital representations of colors by measuring their red green and blue components through colored filters A 4 Desktop Color Primer Subtractive CMY and CMYK color T he subtractive color model is the basis for color printing and for color photographic prints and transparencies W hile the additive color mode simulates the visible spectrum of color by adding light of three primary hues the subtractive color modal starts with a white or neutral light source containing light of many wavelengths Inks toners or other colorants are used to selectively absorb subtract certain wavelengths of light that otherwise would be reflected or transmitted by the media in use T he subtracti
190. tion See the application notes for details Also black text and line art defined as RGB 0 0 0 in office applications such as M icrosoft Word are converted to single color black CMYK 0 0 0 100 by the M icrosoft PostScript 3 driver for Windows 2000 To print this single color black at the maximum toner density of the printer set the Pure Black Text G raphics option to On Black Overprint The Black O verprint option lets you specify whether or not black text defined as RGB 0 0 0 or asCMYK 0 0 0 100 overprints colored backgrounds On Black text overprints colored backgrounds eliminating white gaps and reducing halo effects or misregistration of colors Setting Black O verprint to On automatically activates the Pure Black Text G raphics option Off Black text knocks out colored backgrounds Note PostScript applications may perform their own black overprint conversions before sending the print job to the Fiery 3850C 1 9 Managing color on the Fiery 3850C One example of how you might use this setting is with a page that contains some black text on alight blue background T he background blue color is CM YK 40 30 0 0 and the black text isCM YK 0 0 0 100 e With Black O verprint On the final text portions of the page are overprinted or combined with the underlying colors T his results in CM YK 40 30 0 100 for the color used for the text T hereis no transition in the cyan and mage
191. toshop pane of the Print dialog box For fastest print times select JPEG encoding Note Check the printed output carefully for unwanted artifacts that can appear as a result of JPEG compression If you see unexpected results in the printed output when printing with JPEG encoding print the job again using binary encoding 7 21 Photoshop 4 x RGB Source and Rendering Style settings have no effect on CM YK images T he Spot Color M atching setting is also irrelevant because Photoshop converts PAN TONE colors to CM YK values when you work in CM YK mode e If the image was separated for an offset press standard apply the corresponding CM YK Simulation setting For example if the image is separated for SW O P choose SWOP asthe CM YK Simulation setting If you apply aCM YK Simulation setting other than N one to the job choose Color Proofing Photo or Color Proofing Solid for the Rendering Style setting see page 1 4 e If the image was separated using a custom separation not a press standard choose Noneas the CM YK Simulation setting or choose the corresponding custom simulation profile on the Fiery 3850C if one has been downloaded with the Profile M anager For more information on the Profile M anager and C olorW ise Pro Tools see Chapter 4 Chapter 8 Page Layout Applications 8 1 Working with page layout applications This chapter provides instructions for printing color documents from Adobe PageM aker 7 x and 6 5 Quark
192. toshop performs a color conversion and sends CM YK data to the Fiery 3850C With this setting RGB Source Rendering Style and Spot Color M atching settings have no effect For printing in CM YK consider these Photoshop separation settings e If Photoshop is configured for separating to an offset press standard apply the corresponding CM YK Simulation setting For example if Photoshop is configured for separating to SW O P choose SWOP astheCM YK setting If you apply aCM YK Simulation setting other than N one to the job choose C olor Proofing Photo or Color Proofing Solid for the Rendering Style setting see page 1 4 If Photoshop is configured for a custom separation not a press standard choose Noneas the CM YK Simulation setting or choose the corresponding custom simulation profile on the Fiery 3850C if one has been downloaded with the Profile M anager For more information on the Profile M anager and C olorW ise Pro Tools see Chapter 4 Note If you chooseJ PEG encoding save a backup of the original image with binary encoding until you see the printed results of the J PEG encoded file At times the compression used for JPEG encoding may produce unwanted artifacts in the file If you see unexpected results in the printed output of a J PEG encoded file revert to thea binary encoded version Printing CMYK images Choose an encoding method With the AdobePS printer driver for M ac O S these options appear in the Adobe Pho
193. u choose For all Edit Modes and all Profile Links a warning dialog box appears Click OK Revert to Master x This will reset and save all your custom curves for this simulation profile This action can not be reversed j Cancel T he curves for the linked simulation s now match the last saved master simulation exactly Checking edited profiles You can view a printed sample of a profile before you save it to the Fiery 3850C To do so print one of the following e Comparison Page provided with C olorW ise Pro Tools which shows a comparison of images and colored patches with and without edits e User defined CALIB PS in the H old Queue You can create a custom comparison page and save it as a PostScript or Encapsulated PostScript EPS file called CALIB PS and then print the file to the H old Q ueue of the Fiery 3850C from your application or download it to the H old Q ueue with Fiery Downloader see page 3 35 4 19 Color Setup To CHECK A PROFILE 1 2 Click Test Print from the Color Editor window Test Print x Paper LTR A4 z Input Tray Auto Select zl I Sample Image Page User downloaded CALIB PS in Hold Queue Print Cancel Select a page to print specify the paper size and input tray Comparison Page only and click Print For Comparison Page specify the paper size LT R A4 or 11x 17 A3 in the Paper Size pop up menu In the Input Tray pop up menu spec
194. uction techniques have different color capabilities or gamuts Color transparency films have comparatively large gamuts as do color monitors T he color gamut that can be produced using process inks or CM YK toners on paper is smaller T his is why some colors that can be displayed on a color monitor especially bright saturated colors cannot be reproduced exactly by your Fiery 3850C printer nor can they be reproduced on a press using process colors M oreover different print devices have different gamuts some colors your printer can produce cannot be reproduced on an offset press and vice versa T he following illustration provides a graphical representation of this concept Color transparency film RGB monitor Offset press white Other print device B 3 Color Management You need to account for the gamut of your print device when designing on a color monitor W hen printed colors that fall outside the print device gamut are mapped to printable colors T his process referred to as gamut mapping takes place when color data is converted or adjusted to meet the gamut requirements of a print device The Fiery 3850C is specially designed to perform gamut mapping at high speed with high quality results It provides these color management features automatically using either built in default settings or settings you specify for a particular print job For added flexibility the Fiery 3850C color management system ca
195. ve primaries are cyan magenta and yellow they absorb red green and blue light respectively color example 7 Combining any two subtractive primaries creates a new color that is relatively pure or saturated For example you can make red by combining magenta and yellow which absorb green and blue light respectively W hite occurs when no colorant is applied Combining all three subtractive primaries in theory yields black but due to deficiencies of cyan magenta and yellow colorants combining these three primaries actually yields a muddy brown Black colorant is added to compensate for the deficiencies of cyan magenta and yellow colorants Consequently color printing uses four process colors Cyan Magenta Yellow and blacK CM YK T heuse of black toner helpsin producing rich solid blacks and allows for improved rendering of black text TheCM YK colorants used in offset printing and by your printer toner are to some degree transparent W hen one layer of colorant is applied on top of another you see the effect of both To create a range of intermediary colors a method is required for varying the amount of each colorant that is applied A technique called halftoning is used in offset printing while color print devices typically use a proprietary system for applying ink or toner colors that is similar to halftoning A 5 Desktop Color Primer Printing techniques Until recently most color printing was done on printing presses usi
196. very time you calibrate the Fiery 3850C T he densitometer may also warn periodically that it requires calibration 3 29 Calibrating with ColorWise Pro Tools and DTP32 ED 100 Calibrating with ColorWise Pro Tools and DTP32 ED 100 Using the densitometer you can quickly measure color patches and download these measurements to the Fiery 3850C using C olorW ise Pro Tools Calibrator Note Multiple users can connect to one server with C olorW ise Pro Tools but only one user at a time can use Calibrator An error message appears if you try to calibrate when another user is already using C olorW ise Pro Tools to calibrate ColorW ise Pro Tools for Windows and M ac O S computers are fundamentally the same differences are noted in this chapter T he windows and dialog boxes you see illustrated are the Windows version Note Changing the calibration has the potential to affect all jobs for all users so you may want to limit the number of people authorized to perform calibration An Administrator password can be set from the Fiery 3850C Control Pane to control access to calibration TO CALIBRATE THE PRINTER USING CALIBRATOR 1 Launch ColorWise Pro Tools and connect to the Fiery 3850C GB Colorwise Pro Tools Aero_device Z 2e ol S Calibrator Color Editor Profile Manager Color Setup For instructions on configuring the connection to the Fiery 3850C see Gating Started Note If the connection to the Fiery 38
197. wer Plug the small connector on the adapter cable into the side of the X Rite D T P32 and plug the adapter into a wall outlet Small connector AC adapter 5 Turn on the computer 6 Calibrate the densitometer see below 7 Use ColorWise Pro Tools to calibrate the Fiery 3850C see page 3 29 3 28 Color Calibration Calibrating the X Rite DTP32 densitometer You will need the black and white X Rite Auto C al Strip included with the densitometer Calibrating the densitometer does not require C olorW ise Pro Tools TO CALIBRATE THE X RITE DTP32 1 2 Connect the densitometer to the computer and supply power see page 3 25 From the Main Menu on the X Rite DTP32 display press the p1 key once to reach p2 Press the cal key Calibrating motor speed is displayed followed by the words INSERT CAL STRIP Insert the arrow end of the X Rite Auto Cal Strip into the 35mm slot on the front of the X Rite DTP32 until it stops or the roller starts pulling the strip Reading appears momentarily followed by the density values and CALIBRATION OK The densitometer automatically returns to the MAIN MENU If UNRECOGNI ZABLE STRIP appears repeat the process or try cleaning the strip see the X Rite DT P32 O perating M anual Start ColorWise Pro Tools and proceed to calibrate the Fiery 3850C see the next section Recalibrate the densitometer at least once per month For critical color calibrate the densitometer e
198. y 3850C EPS and TIFF files can be imported into virtually all page layout applications Q Adobe Photoshop 4 0 v Desktop Save this document as Choose Photoshop EPS or TIFF Format Photoshop EPS v In the EPS Format dialog box choose binary encoding and do not include transfer functions or halftone screens A TIFF preview is compatible with both M ac OS and Windows computers Note If you experience problems printing the document in which you place the image substitute an ASCI1 encoded version of the same image and print the document again Binary encoding is much more compact than ASCII encoding but can cause printing problems with some system configurations If you choose J PEG encoding save a backup of the original image with binary encoding until you have seen the printed results of the J PEG encoded file Although not often at times the compression used for JPEG encoding may produce unwanted artifacts in the file If you see unexpected results in the printed output of a JPEG encoded file use a binary encoded version instead EPS Format Preview TIFF 8 bits pixel Ly Clipping Path Path Wane 7 Flatness device pixels O Include Halftone Screen O Include Transfer Function 7 19 Photoshop 4 x Selecting options when printing You can print RGB or CM YK images from Photoshop e When you print RGB images you choose whether the

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