Chapter 4 Control Panel Functions

4.14 Color Menu

The Color Menu contains the settings related to the quality of printed color. Use the following procedure to enter the Color Menu:

1.Press the MENU button on the control panel.

2.Press the NEXT button until the text “Color Menu” is shown on the sec- ond line of the display.

3.Press the SELECT button to enter the Color menu.

4.Press the NEXT button to move through the submenus: Rendering Intent, Color Matching and Alignment.

5.Press the SELECT button to enter a submenu.

6.Use the procedures in the following table to access and change the system settings:

Submenus

Default Setting

Available Settings

Procedure for Changing

 

 

 

Setting

 

 

 

 

Rendering Intent

Photographic

Photographic: This setting will

1. Press NEXT or

This submenu allows you to

 

print the most realistic

PREVIOUS to scroll

choose from several color

 

photographic images.

through the available

settings. Depending on the

 

Presentation: This setting is

color rendering settings.

type of printing you do, this

 

best suited when printing

2. Press SELECT to

setting should be set to an

 

Business Graphics,

choose and save this

appropriate value

 

Presentations, etc. This setting

setting.

 

 

places emphasis on bold,

 

 

 

saturated colors.

 

 

 

Logo Art: When absolute color

 

 

 

fidelity is important, as when

 

 

 

corporate logos and the like are

 

 

 

being printed, this setting will

 

 

 

yield the greatest color fidelity.

 

 

 

Colors that not possible to

 

 

 

accurately produce will be

 

 

 

remapped to the closest possible

 

 

 

color.

 

 

 

Proofing: This setting is very

 

 

 

similar to the Logo Art setting,

 

 

 

but the colors will be shifted by

 

 

 

the color of the media on which

 

 

 

you are printing.

 

 

 

 

 

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