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Color Reference Guide for C9800 - 19
Choosing colors
When working with color materials, whether they are presentations, illustrations,
or complicated page designs, you make aesthetic decisions about the colors you use.
After you set a goal, you must make the best use of the capabilities of your Fiery to
realize your design 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, you want the printed colors to match
the design specification.
• If you are printing presentations on the Fiery, you want to preserve the vivid colors
you see on your monitor.
• If you are working with color that is to be printed on an offset press, you want
the C9800 output to match other prepress proofs or PANTONE color swatch
books.
The colors that you define when creating a file in an application, and the color
management tools within the application that you use, impact how the file is processed
(workflow) and the final output you can expect.
Use color management to control color output by:
• Selecting a color model—different types of applications use different color models.
The color model you select, and whether or when data is converted from one color
model to another, influences the final color output.
• Optimizing for output type—the type of final output influences your color and
application choices.
• Using color matching tools—the Fiery provides several tools to preview colors
available on a device and define them within an application.