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DocuColor 40 CP color management
Rendering styles
The Rendering Style option is used to specify a CRD for color conversions. The
following table describes the various color rendering styles (CRDs) provided with
DocuColor 40 CP software and provides guidelines on when to use each one. Each
color rendering style uses a different gamut mapping method, such as Photographic or
Solid, designed for a particular kind of color usage.
The ICC rendering styles referred to in the table are settings you can choose when
specifying a target profile with an ICC color management system (see the application
notes.)
DocuColor 40 CP rendering style:
Best used for:
Equivalent ICC
rendering style:
Photographic
—Preserves tonal relationships in images
rather than exact colors. This rendering style maps out-
of-gamut RGB colors to printable colors in a way that
retains differences in lightness. Color accuracy is
sacrificed slightly in favor of presenting color
relationships in the way the human eye perceives them.
Photographic rendering typically gives less saturated
output when printing out-of-gamut RGB colors than
Solid Color rendering does.
Continuous tone photographs,
including scans and images from
stock photography CDs
Image
and
Contrast
and
Perceptual
Presentation
—Creates bright saturated colors. This
rendering style does not try to match printed colors
precisely to displayed colors but instead provides
vibrant, dense colors. Photographic images, however, are
treated the same way as by the Photographic rendering
style.
Artwork and graphs in
presentations and continuous tone
photographs
Saturation
and
Graphics
Solid Color
—Provides best color accuracy and preserves
the saturation of displayed colors. This rendering style
matches RGB colors to printable equivalents wherever
possible and maps out-of-gamut RGB colors to the
closest printable colors.
Spot colors and graphic images
(
Solid Color rendering
may not be
appropriate for printing saturated
RGB color blends, since artifacts
such as banding may occur)
Colorimetric
