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output profile were used, and when the printer was last
calibrated:

• Print a Configuration page or Test Page from the Control Panel or

Command WorkStation/Command WorkStation LE.

• Select a calibration set in Calibrator (available from ColorWise

Pro Tools); the last calibration and the user who performed it are
displayed.

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Page 7: ...1 25 CMYK Simulation Profile 1 26 CMYK Simulation Method 1 27 RGB Separation 1 28 Output profile 1 29 Combine Separations 1 30 PostScript printer driver for Windows and Mac OS 1 30 Setting color manag...

Page 8: ...TP32 2 61 Chapter 3 ColorWise Pro Tools Profile Manager 3 64 Setting the default profiles 3 65 Downloading profiles 3 66 Editing profiles 3 68 Managing profiles 3 68 Defining profiles 3 69 Color Edito...

Page 9: ...97 Calibrating the DTP41 A 101 Using the X Rite DTP32 densitometer A 105 Setting up the DTP32 A 105 Calibrating the DTP32 A 107 Appendix B Importing Density Measurements Simple ASCII Import File Form...

Page 10: ...ers The Printing Guide describes the printing features of the Fiery for users who send jobs from their computers using the EFI PostScript driver The Color Guide provides information on managing the co...

Page 11: ...lustrations of Windows software may not necessarily reflect the version of Windows that you use About this manual This manual is organized to supply you with key information about managing the color o...

Page 12: ...sers with the best color output for a variety of purposes The ColorWise default settings provide high quality out of box color from many Windows and Mac OS applications This allows casual users to ach...

Page 13: ...s also useful for evaluating the appearance of the RGB file under different printing conditions without having to reprocess the RGB data each time ColorWise color management ColorWise offers an open c...

Page 14: ...an individual print job using menus that appear in the printer driver Select most ColorWise options as server defaults from the Color Setup application in ColorWise Pro Tools see page 3 95 Defaults c...

Page 15: ...en you send a print job to the Fiery Most of these options and settings are described in subsequent sections of this chapter RGB Source Profile is the only color option that applies strictly to RGB co...

Page 16: ...ent ES3640e MFP Color Guide 16 CIEBasedDEFG format for example by choosing PostScript Color Management in Adobe Photoshop the Fiery Rendering Style selection which normally affects only RGB data will...

Page 17: ...ion applies one dimensional transfer curves that adjust output density only The Full simulations apply colorimetric transformations that adjust hue as well as output density see page 1 27 CMYK Simulat...

Page 18: ...Profile setting Output Profile Output1 10 Default set at Setup or with ColorWise Pro Tools The output profile is applied to all data in the print job see page 1 29 User defined output profiles can be...

Page 19: ...Apple Standard Other None Default set at Setup or with ColorWise Pro Tools Applies an RGB source space definition to RGB data see page 1 25 If you choose the Other setting you must also specify partic...

Page 20: ...igital camera images Image Contrast and Perceptual Presentation Creates saturated colors but does not match printed colors precisely to displayed colors In gamut colors such as flesh tones are rendere...

Page 21: ...e misregistered since there is only one toner used In addition this setting eliminates blasting For some jobs it is preferable to clear this option for example if the page includes gradient fills that...

Page 22: ...y of the printer set the Pure Black Text Graphics option to On Black Overprint The Black Overprint option allows you to specify whether or not black text or text graphics defined as RGB 0 0 0 or as CM...

Page 23: ...k colors generated by applications for example RGB 0 0 0 CMYK 0 0 0 100 are printed using the maximum amount of black toner allowed by the calibration curve This means that black text and line art wil...

Page 24: ...ot included in the built in table setting Spot Color Matching to On retains the spot color originally specified The Fiery references the built in table to generate the closest CMYK matches of the orig...

Page 25: ...y overrides source color space definitions or profiles that other color management systems may have specified For example if you specified a ColorSync System Profile on your Mac OS computer the RGB So...

Page 26: ...ommunication see Chapter 1 of the User Software Installation Guide None instructs the Fiery to allow the RGB sources you defined elsewhere such as in the application to be used When you set RGB Source...

Page 27: ...e User Software Installation Guide Chapter 1 The None setting sends your original CMYK data to the printer in its calibrated state without conversions to simulate another printer The CMYK Simulation P...

Page 28: ...the highest quality press proofing applications Full Output GCR is also a complete and accurate simulation method based on colorimetric transformations Hues are preserved even for primary colors With...

Page 29: ...nvert the file to CMYK using the same CMYK simulation profile you used during the experimentation Note The RGB Separation print option should be used in conjunction with the Output Profile or CMYK Sim...

Page 30: ...ing with the AdobePS driver from a Mac OS computer downloaded or custom profiles appear as Output 1 through Output 10 For more information on Two Way Communication see the User Software Installation G...

Page 31: ...the applications you use The printer driver writes a PostScript file containing the instructions generated by your application and the Fiery print options you chose The printer driver sends the PostS...

Page 32: ...rinting tab and choose settings from the ColorWise menu for the print options described on page 1 17 3 Click Expert Settings The Expert Color Settings flowchart appears This window displays additional...

Page 33: ...d allows you to save a set of print option settings Before you continue complete the following procedures as described in the User Software Installation Guide Chapter 2 Install the AdobePS printer dri...

Page 34: ...r rendering dictionary CRD that is downloaded with the print job This method requires that the file is saved as an EPS with PostScript Color Management selected Note If you use the PostScript Color Ma...

Page 35: ...it does not work in conjunction with all applications and requires that you disable features of ColorWise on the Fiery To set Fiery color management options 1 In the AdobePS Print dialog box choose Co...

Page 36: ...or Management ES3640e MFP Color Guide 36 3 In the ColorWise menu choose settings for the print options described on page 1 17 If these settings are used regularly click Save Settings to save them for...

Page 37: ...olor management options Mac OS X 1 In the Print dialog box choose Printer Features from the menu 2 In the ColorWise 1 ColorWise 2 and ColorWise 3 feature set menus choose settings for the print option...

Page 38: ...Fiery Note To use the ES 1000 or ED 100 with a Mac OS computer you must connect the instrument to a USB port For more information contact your service technician representative For information on set...

Page 39: ...on set is stored This calibration set will be 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...

Page 40: ...ry print quality from the Fiery depends on many factors Among the most important are establishing and maintaining optimal toner densities The density is the measure of the light absorbed by a surface...

Page 41: ...ets define desired calibration results One or more output profiles and calibration sets are provided with the Fiery When you calibrate the Fiery select the calibration set that corresponds to the typi...

Page 42: ...the user software see Introduction in the User Software Installation Guide All these pages include fully saturated color patches and pale tints of cyan magenta yellow and black Images with skin tones...

Page 43: ...d when the printer was last calibrated Print a Configuration page or Test Page from the Control Panel or Command WorkStation Command WorkStation LE Select a calibration set in Calibrator available fro...

Page 44: ...with ColorWise 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 using ColorWise Pro Tools to calibrate Starting Calibrator...

Page 45: ...uide 45 2 Click Calibrator The Calibration window appears in Standard mode 3 Use the Calibrator window to perform the calibration method of your choice Procedures for each calibration method are descr...

Page 46: ...m Standard to Expert The Expert Mode window appears With the Print Pages option print a calibration Comparison Page showing the results of the new measurements with any profile associated with the cur...

Page 47: ...one profile uses the same target an additional menu called Plot Against appears in the upper right corner of the dialog box It lists all output profiles that use that same calibration set Selecting a...

Page 48: ...48 Color Calibration ES3640e MFP Color Guide 48 acceptable color without calibration If the measurement device you use does not produce acceptable color you can easily return to the default measureme...

Page 49: ...trometer ES 1000 The EFI Spectrometer ES 1000 is a hand held spectrophotometer that measures the spectral light reflected from printed output and other colored materials as well as the density of prin...

Page 50: ...2 Choose EFI Spectrometer ES 1000 as the measurement method 3 In the Check Print Settings pane choose the desired calibration set Choose the appropriate calibration set for the mode and type of media...

Page 51: ...on levels Randomized patches are printed on the page in random order to help compensate for density inconsistencies on different areas of the page Page Size is automatically set to LTR A4 for 21 patch...

Page 52: ...Press and hold the measure button and wait for a beep Note To hear a beep with a Windows compatible computer you must have a sound card and speaker s installed 12 After you hear a beep slide the ES 1...

Page 53: ...hand held instrument that measures the density of printed ink and toner Like the DTP32 the ED 100 is a reflection densitometer that you can use to calibrate the Fiery Setting up the ED 100 To use the...

Page 54: ...en Note For this calibration to take effect the calibration set must be associated with one or more output profiles There is no need to make any new associations for the default calibration set since...

Page 55: ...s you want to take for each patch on the page When you choose multiple clicks the average value of all measurements taken for the patch is returned to the Fiery Multiple measurements are more accurate...

Page 56: ...sample aperture over the patch Press Measure to take the measurement Note For a more accurate measurement place several plain sheets of paper beneath the Measurement Page to block underlying colors f...

Page 57: ...asure the patch on the page using the ED 100 Note You must take the measurements in the order outlined in the Measurements window and on the measurement page 11 When all the patches have been read suc...

Page 58: ...ed to make any new associations for the default calibration set since it is already associated with the default output profile 4 In the Generate Measurement Page pane click Print The Print Options dia...

Page 59: ...t the measurement page into the DTP41 starting with the cyan strip Follow the on screen instructions to align the page properly 11 Click Read Strip The DTP41 pulls the measurement page through automat...

Page 60: ...and Next to reverse or advance to another step in the measurement sequence 13 When the Status field indicates that all four color strips have been read successfully click Accept Measurements 14 In the...

Page 61: ...r For instructions on starting Calibrator see page 2 44 2 In the Select Measurement Method pane choose X Rite DTP32 3 In the Check Print Settings pane choose the desired calibration set Choose the app...

Page 62: ...Type and Paper Size options 8 Click Measure In the dialog box that appears follow the directions for feeding the measurement page through the X Rite DTP32 The Status field displays instructions for se...

Page 63: ...undamentally the same differences are noted in this chapter The windows and dialog boxes illustrated are the Windows versions For information on installing and configuring a connection to ColorWise Pr...

Page 64: ...see the Fiery Color Reference Chapter 5 Simulation contains printer profiles used to simulate another device on the Fiery Output contains printer profiles that describe the printer For more informatio...

Page 65: ...you override them using print options The same is true of the default output profile that you set To specify a default profile 1 Start ColorWise Pro Tools and click Profile Manager The left side of th...

Page 66: ...has a default profile To change the Output default select a preset profile you want as the default and click Profile Settings Or create a new default under a new name by selecting a preset profile and...

Page 67: ...dows computers the profiles must have an extension of icc or icm to be listed On Mac OS computers the profiles must have a file type of profile All ICC profiles in the selected directory on your compu...

Page 68: ...ditor either directly or through Profile Manager For more information on editing profiles see Color Editor on page 3 72 Managing profiles Profile Manager allows you to back up profiles to ensure that...

Page 69: ...e To delete profiles from the Fiery 1 Start ColorWise Pro Tools and click Profile Manager 2 Select the profile you want to delete and click Delete A Warning dialog box asks you to confirm the deletion...

Page 70: ...ry Note A custom simulation profile is used to illustrate this procedure The same steps apply for defining output profiles To define a custom simulation profile 1 Start ColorWise Pro Tools and click P...

Page 71: ...n Driver as option This replaces the preset profile with your own profile In Profile Settings you can also change profile descriptions for all non locked profiles 4 Click OK Simulation 1 now appears u...

Page 72: ...directly by clicking its icon in the ColorWise Pro Tools main window or indirectly through the Profile Manager Editing profiles Color Editor allows you to create custom profiles by editing existing si...

Page 73: ...simulation method and output profile are selected If you choose an output profile and simulation method for which you have created a custom linked simulation that simulation is applied automatically t...

Page 74: ...the output profiles resident on the Fiery 3 Choose a profile to edit and click Select Another method is to open the Profile Manager select a profile and then click Edit 4 For a simulation profile cho...

Page 75: ...you to save a target separately rather it saves the target in conjunction with an output profile 5 Select the colors you want to edit by turning colors off and on The Eye icon to the left of each colo...

Page 76: ...gs first so that the curves are deflected from their straight line positions Then make edits to the new curves When you adjust Dot Gain values all existing points on the curve are removed A warning di...

Page 77: ...l colors for profiles that support density settings D Max settings are not available when you edit Simulation profiles in Master mode 10 When you are finished click Save and enter a name for the new p...

Page 78: ...printer driver for Windows computers custom profiles will appear in the driver window without being associated with a predefined profile name If you set a custom profile as the default you can access...

Page 79: ...r they are saved as components of the same profile 4 Edit and save the simulation as described in steps 5 through 10 of the procedure starting on page 3 75 For this new simulation to be automatically...

Page 80: ...ulation see page 3 69 Checking edited profiles To view a printed sample of a profile before you save it to the Fiery print one of the following Comparison Page provided with ColorWise Pro Tools which...

Page 81: ...and their CMYK equivalents The matching lists of spot colors and CMYK values are known as Spot Color Dictionaries Spot On allows you to maintain multiple Spot Color Dictionaries one for each output pr...

Page 82: ...s The CMYK values you see in the window are calculated with respect to the specified profile Using the Spot On main window The Spot On main window displays a list of color groups which represent libra...

Page 83: ...the default group icon You can also add custom color groups and colors to the Spot On window see page 3 86 Added groups appear marked with the custom group icon Both default and custom groups can be...

Page 84: ...an also close all color groups by clicking the Close All icon above the color list Working with existing colors With Spot On you can view and manage existing groups of colors on the Fiery You can also...

Page 85: ...st where you want to paste the cut or copied selection and click the Paste icon in the toolbar When you paste a default color group or color a warning message may appear asking you to rename the selec...

Page 86: ...lect the line in the group or color list where your addition is intended 2 Choose New Group from the Edit menu to insert a new group or choose New Color to insert a new color A new color group entry o...

Page 87: ...d group 2 Choose Download from the File menu The Select file dialog box appears 3 Locate and select the desired color group and click Open The downloaded group is added to the specified location in th...

Page 88: ...le and then click Save Editing color values The Spot On Color Search targets the exact CMYK toner equivalents required to simulate a desired spot color on the printer If an existing spot color is not...

Page 89: ...ors depending on the option you choose in the following step Note When you select certain colors an exclamation point icon may appear in the upper right corner of the window This icon indicates that t...

Page 90: ...atches that differ more noticeably from the center color As you get closer to your target color reduce the color spacing to a smaller value Select Monitor Compensation to simulate how all the on scree...

Page 91: ...olor values that make a printed color patch match a target not the screen simulation of it Printing a Print Pattern of the neighbor color patches allows you to compare the printed patches to the color...

Page 92: ...or than are possible with Percentages 3 Enter the C M Y and K values of your specific color in the appropriate fields Use the Tab key to move from field to field As you enter each new value the previe...

Page 93: ...rs 3 For Instrument choose the instrument you will use to take measurements For Port choose the serial port connection of the instrument Click OK The indicator light on the instrument flashes for a fe...

Page 94: ...matches for use on the Fiery you must save your edits before exiting Spot On This action ensures that all your changes to Spot On color definitions are stored on the Fiery and available for use when p...

Page 95: ...ll print jobs sent to the Fiery unless a user overrides them for an individual job by changing settings in the printer driver These default settings can also be overridden using Command WorkStation or...

Page 96: ...changes click OK or Apply for the changes to take effect OK sets the new defaults and closes the window Apply sets the new defaults and keeps the window open Cancel closes the window without applying...

Page 97: ...lor data The DTP41 communicates directly with the Calibrator application in ColorWise Pro Tools sending measurements to the Fiery automatically Setting up the DTP41 Before you calibrate the Fiery you...

Page 98: ...e 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 LED indicator Power input Serial interface co...

Page 99: ...pin mini DIN end of the interface cable into the 9 pin DB9 Connector cable adapter Insert the 9 pin end into the COM1 or COM2 port on the computer and tighten the screws If the available port on your...

Page 100: ...in mini DIN plug directly into the serial port of the computer Note For Mac OS computers with a USB port for example an iMac you need an adapter to connect the DTP41 to your computer For information o...

Page 101: ...Wise Pro Tools and the DTP41 see page 2 57 Calibrating the DTP41 For the best color accuracy calibrate the X Rite DTP41 spectrophotometer every time you calibrate the Fiery You can initiate the calibr...

Page 102: ...Reference strip that is included with the spectrophotometer Remove the strip from its protective envelope handling it by the edges only Keep the strip free of dust and smudges and always store it in t...

Page 103: ...m the Available Ports menu The Instructions area displays instructions for selecting the port 7 Click Utilities The Utilities dialog box appears To view version and serial number information click Sho...

Page 104: ...the DTP41 until you feel the resistance of the feed mechanism 11 Click Read Reference in the Instrument Calibration dialog box The DTP41 pulls the calibration strip through automatically A message ap...

Page 105: ...ing up the DTP32 Before you calibrate the Fiery using the X Rite DTP32 you need to connect configure and calibrate the densitometer to prepare for measuring the printed patches see Calibrating the DTP...

Page 106: ...he available port on your computer is 25 pin you must use the 8 pin to 25 pin adapter For a Mac OS computer connect the 8 pin mini DIN plug directly into the serial port of the computer Note For Mac O...

Page 107: ...d the DTP32 see page 2 61 Calibrating the DTP32 You will need the black and white X Rite Auto Cal Strip included with the densitometer Calibrating the densitometer does not require ColorWise Pro Tools...

Page 108: ...g appears momentarily followed by the density values and CALIBRATION OK The densitometer automatically returns to the MAIN MENU If UNRECOGNIZABLE STRIP appears repeat the process or try cleaning the s...

Page 109: ...ches 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 sp...

Page 110: ...me paper relative by subtracting the density values of the first line from the remaining patches Example of 1D Status T density for EFI 34 patch page This file format is used to specify the Status T d...

Page 111: ...1000 more data 20 1 6700 1 3400 0 8900 1 6700 21 1 7200 1 4300 0 9300 1 7500 Example of 1D Status T density for an arbitrary page This file format is used to specify the Status T density measurements...

Page 112: ...restoring defaults 2 49 using 2 44 to 2 49 viewing measurements 2 47 CMYK Simulation Method option 1 17 1 27 CMYK Simulation Profile option 1 17 1 26 Color Charts 2 42 Color Editor dot gain adjustmen...

Page 113: ...th 2 54 importing measurements with 3 93 overview 2 53 EFI Densitometer see ED 100 EFI Spectrometer see ES 1000 EFIRGB RGB Source Profile option 1 25 3 64 ES 1000 2 49 calibrating with 2 50 importing...

Page 114: ...33 Profile Manager backing up profiles 3 68 defining profiles 3 70 deleting profiles 3 69 downloading profiles 3 66 setting defaults 3 65 profiles see ICC profiles Pure Black Text Graphics option 1 18...

Page 115: ...option 1 19 sRGB RGB Source Profile option 1 25 3 64 Status T B 109 SWOP setting CMYK Simulation Profile option 1 27 3 65 T targets for calibration 2 41 Test Page 2 43 transfer functions 2 40 two way...

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