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Page 1: ...Version 4 0 and User Guide PhaserMatch PhaserCal c o l o r l a s e r p r i n t e r www xerox com office support Phaser 7700 7750 7760 ...

Page 2: ...re trademarks of Xerox Corporation in the United States and or other countries Adobe Illustrator Photoshop and PostScript are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and or other countries Apple AppleTalk ColorSync EtherTalk Macintosh and Mac OS are trademarks of Apple Computer Inc in the United States and or other countries GretagMacbeth Spectrolino and SpectroScan are trade...

Page 3: ...Corrections 1 6 Next Recommended Reading 1 6 Spectrophotometer Based Calibration 2 1 Visual Color Calibration 2 2 3 Creating Custom TekColor Corrections Creating Device Link Profiles 3 1 Selecting a Phaser Printer Profile 3 2 Selecting a Target Device Profile 3 2 Creating Custom TekColor Corrections 3 2 Device Link Profile Options Screen 3 3 Saving Device Link Profile Screen 3 3 Sending a Custom T...

Page 4: ...on a Phaser 7760 or Phaser 7750 Printer 6 1 Managing TekColor Corrections on a Phaser 7700 Printer 6 1 Macintosh System Requirements 7 1 Windows System Requirements 7 1 Spectrophotometer Calibration Data File 7 1 Additional Information 7 3 A Glossary B Introduction to Color Management ...

Page 5: ... to eliminate changes in printed colors caused by environmental conditions such as temperature and humidity and normal wear on printer supplies such as toner cartridges and imaging units Note When you are using the PhaserMatch software click the Help button in the upper right hand corner of the screen to view detailed help about each screen PhaserCal Software Version 4 0 PhaserCal 4 0 is a color c...

Page 6: ... 0 Note You will only need PhaserMatch 3 0 if you are using the scanner based color profile creation tool You can use both versions of PhaserMatch on your system Before installing and using PhaserMatch or PhaserCal you should install the appropriate Xerox supplied Phaser 7760 7750 and 7700 PostScript printer drivers on your computer If you have both the PhaserMatch and PhaserCal CD ROMs you only n...

Page 7: ...bration is one of the most important things you can do if you want to obtain optimal color output from your printer Color laser printers must be periodically calibrated to eliminate changes in printed colors caused by environmental conditions such as temperature and humidity and normal wear on printer consumables such as toner cartridges and imaging units Calibration may also be necessary if the p...

Page 8: ...om existing ICC profiles You can use an existing ICC device link profile to create a TekColor correction and then download it to a Phaser 7760 or Phaser 7750 printer or update the Phaser 7700 printer driver edit an existing ICC device link profile and then download it to a Phaser 7760 or Phaser 7750 printer or update the Phaser 7700 printer driver create a new device link profile by linking a Phas...

Page 9: ... select to install additional target device profiles and profiles that simulate some of the printer s built in Phaser TekColor corrections Use these ICC profiles to create device link profiles and then you can modify these device link profiles When you need to create a new TekColor correction you need to create a device link profile ICC Profile ICC Profile TekColor Correction ICC Profile ICC Profi...

Page 10: ... the TekColor corrections that are already built into the printer such as SWOP Press and Euroscale Press You can also use PhaserMatch to delete the custom TekColor corrections from the hard drive For more information on printing with custom TekColor corrections on a Phaser 7760 or Phaser 7750 printer see Printing to a Phaser 7760 or Phaser 7750 Printer on page 4 1 or click the Help button in the P...

Page 11: ... correction go to Printing to a Phaser 7760 or Phaser 7750 Printer on page 4 1 or Printing to a Phaser 7700 Printer on page 4 3 managing TekColor corrections go to Managing TekColor Corrections on a Phaser 7760 or Phaser 7750 Printer on page 6 1 or Managing TekColor Corrections on a Phaser 7700 Printer on page 6 1 ...

Page 12: ... X Rite DTP 70 X Rite PULSE X Rite Digital Swatchbook SpectroStar SpectroCam Note PhaserMatch and PhaserCal software do not support any densitometers for performing a color calibration procedure PhaserMatch and PhaserCal software walks you through a series of steps that generate and download the calibration data to a printer To perform a spectrophotometer based calibration 1 Launch the PhaserMatch...

Page 13: ...to the printer For more information on how to use these screens click the Help button in the application Visual Color Calibration The printer contains a set of instructions that describe how to calibrate the printer visually These instructions can be printed from the control panel PhaserMatch or PhaserCal The printed color balancing tutorial explains how to perform a visual color calibration Note ...

Page 14: ...s a printing press or another printer It does this through the creation of a Device Link Profile DLP A device link profile is an ICC profile that combines the color information about the printer and the target device into one file Creating device link profiles enables you to alter the colors printed by your Phaser printer so they more closely match the colors produced by the output device of your ...

Page 15: ...OS X Library ColorSync Profiles Microsoft Windows 2000 XP C WINNT system32 spool drivers color Selecting a Target Device Profile To select a target device profile click the Select Profile button under the heading Select a Target Device Profile in the main Create Profile Note Target profiles describe the device that you want to emulate using your Phaser printer Two types of ICC profiles can be used...

Page 16: ...e paper that was used when creating the target device profile but it can also change the users perceptions of other colors in the print Saving Device Link Profile Screen The Save Device Link screen is used to a specify a detailed description and a short name for the TekColor correction When the Save Profile button is clicked the TekColor correction is saved as a device link profile Note The printe...

Page 17: ...ile button to delete profiles from your printer For more information about this screen click the Help button in the PhaserMatch application Phaser 7700 Printer PhaserMatch adds new color corrections to the printer driver when it is used with a Phaser 7700 printer The application updates the driver files to make the new TekColor custom color corrections available in the driver on the computer where...

Page 18: ...hort name of the desired color correction Note AppleTalk EtherTalk and USB connections are not TCP IP connections Computers without TCP IP Connections to the Printer When using a computer without TCP IP connection to the printer the driver lists the custom TekColor correction selections as Custom Color 1 Custom Color 2 through Custom Color 10 To select a custom TekColor correction 1 In the Print s...

Page 19: ...uality tab 7 Select a print quality mode Note The printer driver s settings for paper and print quality must match the paper type and print quality selected when creating the device link profile and the calibration should have been done using this same print quality and paper type 8 Ensure the paper in the printer matches the profile you selected 9 Click OK To select a custom TekColor correction f...

Page 20: ...u used when you downloaded the color correction to the printer 5 Click the Paper Quality tab 6 Select a print quality mode Note The printer driver s settings for paper and print quality must match the paper type and print quality selected when creating the device link profile and the calibration should have been done using this same print quality and paper type 7 Ensure the paper in the printer ma...

Page 21: ...p menu and then click on the short name of the desired color correction Windows 2000 and Windows XP The TekColor corrections created by PhaserMatch work with applications that generate CMYK color values when printing The printer driver supplied for this operating system lists the custom TekColor corrections using the short name of the correction To select a custom TekColor correction 1 In the Prin...

Page 22: ... to the color correction being edited After selecting a device link profile and a preview image continue the process of generating a new custom TekColor correction by clicking the Next button After you are done with each subsequent editing step in this process click the Next button to have PhaserMatch walk you through the steps needed to create custom TekColor corrections Editing Hints Editing is ...

Page 23: ...ld model what you expect to see when printing Note For a Windows operating system you must press the Apply button after pressing the Reset button to see the image change Output Gamma Curves Editing Tool Button Fine Tune Tool These check boxes select the color curves that are displayed in the graph below The input and output level for the curve selected below In this example the magenta curve is th...

Page 24: ... New to create a new color edit The Choose a Color screen appears 4 On the picture on the right side of the screen click on the color that you want to edit Note The eyedropper tool is automatically enabled when you enter the Destination Space section of the preview screen 5 In the Name field enter the name of this color edit 6 Click OK The Fine Tune screen with the selected color appears 7 If you ...

Page 25: ...his screen is used to send a custom TekColor correction to the printer You can also delete custom TekColor corrections created in PhaserMatch 4 0 Managing TekColor Corrections on a Phaser 7700 Printer When using a Phaser 7700 printer under a Macintosh operating system the Download Profile button is used to manage the custom TekColor corrections associated with a printer driver This functionality c...

Page 26: ...red 256 MB RAM recommended 600 x 800 dpi resolution color monitor with the ability to display thousands of colors Xerox Phaser 7760 7750 or 7700 color laser printers only Installation of the Xerox Phaser 7760 the Phaser 7750 or the Phaser 7700 Windows printer driver This driver must be used in order to use PhaserMatch 4 0 TekColor corrections Spectrophotometer Calibration Data File When using Manu...

Page 27: ...I text file The format of the ASCII text file to be imported is as follows The symbol above indicates a single space You must have one single space in place of the box and only one single space If you are using a Microsoft Excel file In the Save as type field select Formatted Text Space delimited prn In the File name field type the name as filename mpd or filename txt You must use the quotation ma...

Page 28: ...Link For automated printer diagnostics and troubleshooting using your web browser go to the PhaserSMART website www phasersmart com For general support go to the Xerox support website www xerox com office support For Xerox Phaser printer information go to the Xerox Office website www xerox com office ...

Page 29: ...to as device dependent colors These colors are typically generated by applications such as Adobe Photoshop Color Appearance The perception of the color or colors of an object or image This can be described in terms of hue saturation chroma and lightness There are a large number of human perception factors and color reproduction factors that determine the color appearance of a printed page Color Ma...

Page 30: ...en used for color measurements color matching and viewing colors in light booths ICC See International Color Consortium ICC Profiles Device characterizations that are implemented per the ICC standard these are sometimes referred as color profiles or device profiles ICM Microsoft Windows Color Management System and the file extension for ICC profiles International Color Consortium Established in 19...

Page 31: ...to a known condition RGB Color Values The numerical color values for the primaries Red Green and Blue that are used by some output devices These colors are referred to as device dependent colors The color values are typically generated Office applications such as Microsoft PowerPoint Spectrophotometer Color measurement device no support is provided for a densitometer a density meter Swatches See P...

Page 32: ... below shows the colors reproducible by different mediums can vary significantly The publishing industry has settled on a system of color management developed by the International Color Consortium ICC ICC based color management relies on two things device profiles called ICC profiles which characterize how individual devices produce color and a color engine also called a color matching module or C...

Page 33: ...s from other vendors When using PhaserMatch with Macintosh make sure the default CMM is the Apple CMM When using PhaserMatch with Windows PhaserMatch is using its own CMM the selection of CMM at the OS is not used When you create an image using an application that uses ColorSync or ICM a profile can be embedded in the image file The Phaser 7760 7750 and 7700 printer work with applications that pro...

Page 34: ...agement A 1 B 1 creating custom 1 4 1 5 custom TekColor corrections creating 1 4 1 5 3 1 3 2 editing 5 1 editing hints 5 2 managing 6 1 overview 1 4 1 5 printing 1 6 4 1 sending to printer 3 3 D device link profile creating 3 1 options 3 3 saving 3 3 F fine tune tool using 5 3 I ICC profiles creating 1 5 installing on a Macintosh system 1 2 on a Windows system 1 2 installing PhaserMatch PhaserCal ...

Page 35: ...printer 1 6 4 1 4 2 profiles creating and using target device profiles 3 2 saving device link profile 3 3 using Phaser printer profiles 3 1 pure black enhancement 3 3 R requirements system 1 2 resources 7 3 S spectrophotometer based calibration 2 1 system requirements Macintosh 7 2 Windows 7 2 T target device profiles creating and using 3 2 targets 7 3 TCP IP connections 4 2 Macintosh OS X 4 1 Tek...

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