MINOLTA-QMS magicolor 2350, User Manual

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Color Matching
Your printer ’ s color management system is adjusted for best results with the
most commonly used application software, including the Microsoft Office
products. If you are using these common applications, you may never need to
adjust the color matching on your printer.
If you do need to make adjustments, however, the printer offers you a wide
variety of color matching options.
Color controls are located in the Features tab of the printer driver and are
also accessible through PageScope Light. If driver settings do not match the
settings chosen in PageScope Light, the driver settings will take precedence.
Quick Color Configuration
The simplest way to control colors is with the Quick Color Configuration
option in the printer driver and in PageScope Light. Quick Color Configuration
offers 11 choices that are applied to the entire print job. You can select the
setting that
’ s most appropriate for your entire print job and apply it uniformly
to all text and graphics.
Color Options
When your print jobs are more complicated, Color Options is the best choice.
Color Options lets you apply one color matching standard to graphics and
another to images.
The first step in managing color is a choice between color rendering
dictionaries and color profiles. Often, your application will tell you which of
these two options to choose.
Color Rendering Dictionaries
Color rendering dictionaries are based on the additive colors used by com-
puter monitors (red, green, and blue). They provide a fixed match between
colors so that one monitor color will always be translated to the same printer
color.
Your printer offers a choice of three color-rendering dictionaries:
Business - This CRD mostly closely matches the intensity of the colors
on the monitor. Use it for printing presentation graphics (such as over-
head transparencies), spot color, and text.
Photographic - This CRD was developed to optimize the quality of
photographic images. It adjusts all colors (both in and out of gamut) to
maintain the proportional relationship among the colors.
Colorimetric - Use this CRD for printing spot colors, such as logos, and
single solid colors where hue accuracy is crucial. With this CRD, in-gamut