Minolta magicolor 7300, User Manual

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Color Matching 70
Quick Color Configuration
The simplest way to control colors is with the Quick Color Configuration
option in the printer driver. Quick Color Configuration offers 6 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.
Halftone Screens
Continuous tone images have to be converted to dot pattern images on a
laser printer. Because of the limited resolving power of the eye, halftones
appear as continuous tone images. Halftones are defined by three character-
istics—screen frequency (or lines per inch, the number of lines of dots that
compose each inch of a halftone screen), screen angle (the angle at which a
halftone screen prints), and spot function (the shape of the dots).
Three halftones screens are available for this printer. In the Detailed Color
Settings dialog box in the Windows drivers, you can choose separate halftone
screens for Characters/Graphics and for Images:
Low—Best for photographs and scanned images
General—Optimized for performance and quality
High—Best for text and line art
Color Profiles
Color profiles use the International Color Consortium (ICC) standards to
translate monitor colors into printer colors. Color profiles are more flexible
than color rendering dictionaries, so you can make the closest color matches
for your particular job, but they may require more skill to manipulate so that
you get the results you want.
You can set the RGB source profile to match the characteristics of the source
of the print job, the simulation profile to match a specific press, and the output
profile to indicate the characteristics of your printing device. Several source
and simulation profiles are included with your printer or you can download
additional profiles. Instructions for downloading profiles are included in the
magicolor 7300 Reference Guide on the Documentation CD-ROM.