Xerox 8400 manual Image Processing, Adjusting Color Using TekColor Correction, Using Color

Using Color

Image Processing

The differences between the way your printer and monitor produce color explain why your printed document can look different from what you see on your screen. To compensate for these differences, the colors are converted by your printer using image processing. Image processing translates your computer file into a printer file. Your printer uses TekColor Correction to translate color from your computer to your printer.

Adjusting Color Using TekColor Correction

The TekColor correction options provide simulations of different color devices. Follow these basic guidelines to accurately reproduce the colors you want on your prints.

TekColor correction is the default correction for general image processing. For typical business and office printing, select the RGB Vivid option before printing. The sRGB Display and sRGB Vivid work best with RGB images.

Select Automatic to let the printer automatically pick the best color correction for elements in your document.

Type of Print Job	Color Correction	Description
	Option
Producing most print jobs	Automatic	Provides the best results for
	(Default setting)	documents with a mixture of
		graphics, text, and pictures.
Matching the sRGB display for screen	Office Color	Simulates computer display colors
and print images	sRGB Display	(RGB).
Producing bar and pie charts, spread	Office Color	Produces the brightest, most
sheets, and organizational charts	sRGB Vivid	saturated colors.
Using the 8400 PANTONE® Color Chart	Office Color	No color correction is made to
for process PANTONE® Color matching	None	colors.
Using SWOP press standards	Press Match	Matches Specifications for Web
	SWOP	Offset Publications (SWOP) press
		standards.
Using the Euroscale 4-color process	Press Match	Emulates the Euroscale 4-color
press mode	Euroscale	process press mode.
Using the Imation Matchprint press	Press Match	Matches Imation Matchprint proofs.
standard	Commercial
Producing a black-and-white version of a	Black and White	Transforms all color to equivalent
color document		gray levels, and attempts to
		preserve color differences as gray
		density differences.

For more information on color matching and ICC profiles, go to www.xerox.com/office/ infoSMART.

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