Lexmark 1200 manual Color Correction, What Why When

Adjusting color You can make color adjustments from your Lexmark printer driver, from the MarkVision printer utility, and from the printer operator panel. Lexmark posts updates about color support on its web site (www.lexmark.com). See page 141 for more information about online services.

From the operator panel, select Color Menu. The follow- ing menu items are available to customize your color printing:

•Color Correction

•Print Quality

•Toner Saver

The values for each menu item are defined in the follow- ing tables. Each table indicates:

•What you can adjust

•Why you would make the adjustment

•When you would want to make the adjustment

The settings you choose may depend on the types of jobs you print. For example, jobs full of images—visual data typically scanned from original sources external to the PC, such as photographs or video frames—may require set- tings different from those you would choose for business graphics, such as charts and graphs electronically gener- ated from a software application.

Color Correction

What	Why	When
Vivid (default)	To print brighter colors. Vivid adjusts CMYK	• You need sharp overhead
	components, resulting in more saturated	transparencies, especially when creating
	colors.	transparencies that contain graphics.
		• Printed colors appear faded or washed
		out.
	To adjust the cyan to magenta range of	Your printed blues are too purple.
	colors to be more blue.
RGB	To print with no color correction from RGB	You are using an application that does its
	applications.	own color correction in RGB color.
CMYK	To print with no color correction from CMYK	You are using a software application that
	applications.	does its own color correction.

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