44-44 Performing Setup from the Control Panel

TO ACCESS COLOUR SETUP OPTIONS

1.In the main Setup menu, choose Colour Setup.

2.Enter the options appropriate to the printing requirements at the site.

3.When you have finished, save changes.

In the following list of options, default values, where applicable, appear in square brackets.

RGB Source Profile

EFIRGB/sRGB (PC)/Apple Standard/None [EFIRGB]

The RGB source is the colour space used to control colour for conversion from moni- tor to printed output. EFIRGB is based on the reference points used in the creation of the Fiery software. sRGB is based on an average of a large number of PC monitors.

Apple Standard is the standard reference point for Apple’s ColorSync software.

Rendering Style

Photographic/Presentation/Abs. Colorimetric/Rel. Colorimetric [Presentation]

The colour rendering dictionary (CRD) defines how colours are converted from the RGB colour space to device CMYK. Photographic, designed for images, retains the rel- ative balance between colours to maintain the overall appearance of the image. Presen- tation, designed for bright colours, produces the saturated prints needed for most business presentations, but handles photographic images the same way as the Photo- graphic CRD. Absolute Colorimetric provides the closest match to the CMYK device being simulated, including rendering the paper colour as the background. Relative Colorimetric provides a close match to the CMYK device being simulated, regardless of the media used.

CMYK Simulation Profile

SWOP-Coated (EFI)/DIC (EFI)/Euroscale (EFI)/None [SWOP-Coated (EFI) in North America, Euroscale (EFI) elsewhere]

CMYK simulation allows colour correction to simulate printed output on a commer- cial press, so that the Fiery output can be used for proofing. The SWOP-Coated stan- dard is used in the United States, DIC in Japan, and Euroscale in Europe. Custom simulations are user defined and named. The simulations provided with the Fiery have the designation “EFI” after their names.