C9800 User’s Guide - 19
R
ENDERING
INTENTS
When a document is printed, a conversion takes place from the
document's color space to the printer color space. The rendering
intents are essentially a set of rules that determine how this color
conversion takes place.
To change these settings in your printer driver:
1.
Click the [color] tab.
2.
Select [Manual Settings] and click [Options...].
3.
Select [Printer color Matching] and choose the desired
rendering intent from the drop-down list.
S
ETTING
D
ESCRIPTION
Auto
Best choice for printing general documents.
This setting is used by default.
Perceptual
Best choice for printing photographs.
Compresses the source gamut into the printer's gamut
while maintaining the overall appearance of an image. This
may change the overall appearance of an image as all the
colors are shifted together.
This option attempts to simulate RGB color.
Saturation
Best choice for printing bright and saturated colors if you
don't care how accurate the colors are.
Best choice for graphs, charts, diagrams etc.
Maps fully saturated colors in the source gamut to fully
saturated colors in the printer's gamut.
Relative
colorimetric
Good for proofing CMYK color images on a desktop printer.
Much like Absolute colorimetric, except that it scales the
source white to the (usually) paper white.
Unlike Absolute colorimetric, Relative colorimetric attempts
to take the paper white into account.
Absolute
colorimetric
Best for printing solid colors and tints (such as Company
logos).
Matches colors common to both devices (monitor and
printer) exactly. Clips the out-of-gamut colors to their
nearest printed equivalent.
Tries to print white as it appears on screen. The white of a
monitor is often very different from paper white, so this
may result in color casts, especially in the lighter areas of
an image.