Printing: Beyond the Basics 4

Printing objective or problem

Color correction to use

 

 

Turn off all color corrections

None

 

 

Using PANTONE Colors

 

 

 

Brightest, most vibrant colors

Vivid Color

 

 

Overhead transparency presentations

 

 

 

Blue colors are printing too purple

 

 

 

Colors are washed out or faded

 

 

 

Colors should match computer display screen*

Simulate Display

 

 

Colors are too dark

 

 

 

Colors should match a printing press standard

SWOP Press

 

Euroscale Press

 

Commercial Press

 

 

Print in gray scale

Monochrome

 

 

Use printer’s current color defaults

Use Printer Setting

 

 

Use Adobe’s standard color conversions

Raw CMYK

 

Raw RGB

*For other ways of matching the screen’s colors, use ColorSync color matching on a Macintosh or use host color correction in Windows 95 (refer to the printer’s CD-ROM or Tektronix’ World Wide Web site for more information).

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Tektronix Phaser 350 manual Printing objective or problem Color correction to use