Apple 6500 manual Color settings in the Print dialog box

Color settings in the Print dialog box

To turn on color matching, click to put an X in this checkbox.

Look here to see the effects of the color options you choose.

To save these settings for printing future documents, click here.

You can choose Color, Grayscale or Black & White from this pop-up menu.

If you choose Black & White or Grayscale from the Image pop-up menu, these options are dimmed.

The ColorSync color-matching system makes sure that colors look as consistent as possible no matter what device you use to view them—monitor or printer. In addition, ColorSync helps give you the best possible colors when you export the image to another Mac OS–based computer with ColorSync installed or print it on another color printer.

With ColorSync turned on and the Automatic matching method selected, the computer chooses the best matching method for the contents of the document you are printing. With Automatic matching, the matching method varies from object to object on each page to ensure the best matching for each object. If you are not satisfied with the results, you can choose the option you want from the Matching Method pop-up menu. Most of the time, however, the Automatic setting is best.

Automatic lets the computer choose the best color-matching method for your document.

If you have obtained additional printer profiles from other software companies, you can use the Printer Profile pop-up menu to choose the one you want. (The additional profiles should come with instructions telling you how to choose the appropriate one.)

If you don’t have additional printer profiles, leave this set to Automatic.

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