Minolta MAGICOLOR 2, Manual

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Other Methods
of Color
Control
QMS magicolor 2 Op eration 4-6
The advantages of Level 2 color matching are that it is portable, it is
application- and printer-resident (there’s nothing else to buy), and it is
performed at the printer level (so it doesn’t tie up your host). However,
no on-screen preview of output is provided, and you are not warned if
a color is out of printer’s gamut (color range).
Color Matching with PANTONE
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Your printer has been approved by Pantone, Inc. to simulate PAN-
TONE Colors. Pantone specifies hundreds of spot colors, each identi-
fied by a unique number. Each of these spot colors can be simulated
on the printer with the appropriate combination of process (CMYK)
colors.
Within a Pantone-licensed application (such as Aldus FreeHand or
Adobe Illustrator), you can choose a PANTONE Color number and the
corresponding CMYK simulation is printed. Pantone tables for sup-
porting applications are shipped on the
QMS Software Utilities CD-
ROM or on a supplemental color disk with the printer, including the
following:
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Adobe Illustrator (Macintosh and Windows)
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CorelDRAW (Windows only)
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Macromedia FreeHand (Macintosh and Windows)
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QuarkXPress (Macintosh only)
Instructions for installation and use of these files are included on the
Pantone disk shipped with your printer.
The formulas in the PANTONE Color look-up charts result in Pantone-
approved color only under the following conditions:
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A Pantone-licensed application (such as Adobe Illustrator,
QuarkXPress, and Macromedia FreeHand) is used to create the
color.
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The colors are printed with QMS-supplied toner.
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Pantone, Inc.’s check-standard trademark for color reproduction and color reproduction
materials.