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Setting the PCL Printer Driver
Macintosh
Basics
Windows
Windows
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Selecting Color in the Color Appearance menu:
• Automatic:
This is the recommended setting for most business documents.
• sRGB(Photo):
This is the recommended mode for printing photographic images. It allows closer matching
between the color monitor and printed output. Click on this check button and click
[Setting...]
(for
the detailed information,
see “Manually Adjusting the Color Print” on page 139
).
• Vivid(Graphics):
This is the recommended mode for printing line art graphics. It provides more vivid printed output
than the color monitor. Click on this check button and click
[Setting...]
(for the detailed
information,
see “Manually Adjusting the Color Print” on page 139
).
• ICM
The printer assigns the best color possible to represent the original color accurately by selecting
different rendering intents. Click on this button, then click
[Rendering Intent...]
.
The Rendering Intent window is displayed. Select the desired rendering intent, which determines
how the printer assigns the color. Rendering Intent is different depending on the operating system
of Windows.
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Absolute Colorimetric is not available on Windows 95.
NOTE:
• Image Color Matching is available only when application software has ICM feature and working on
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
Selecting Gray Scale in the Appearance:
Manually adjusts the brightness of the gray scale image by clicking on the
Use Brightness
Adjustment
check box and clicking
[Brightness...]
. (for the detailed information,
see “Manually
Adjusting the Gray Scale Print” on page 144
)
Saturation
Matching is best for graphs and pie charts, in which vividness is
more important than actual color.
Perceptual (Contrast)
Matching is best for photographic images.
Relative Colorimetric
Matching is best for logo images, in which a few colors must be
(Colorimetric) matched exactly.
Absolute Colorimetric*
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Matching is used for mapping to a device - independent color
space.