Tektronix Tektronix Color Printer, Phaser 360 user manual Adjusting the color of your prints

5Printing: Beyond the Basics

Adjusting the color of your prints

You may occasionally want to adjust the color of your prints for speciÞc objectives, such as printing on transparencies. The following table lists the TekColor color correction modes and their functions. A more detailed description of each mode follows.

Select a color correction mode from your software application, at the printerÕs front panel, or with downloadable utility Þles.

To select print features from Windows applications, refer to the table on page 4-20; to select print features from Macintosh applications, refer to page 4-36. Settings from your software application override the printerÕs front panel default settings.

Printing objective or problem	Color correction to use
General office printing: Automatic optimizes the color	Automatic (default: make
quality for each element on a page — text, photos, and	no selection)
graphics — for the best overall color.
Brightest, most saturated transparencies.	Vivid Color
Presentation graphics — bar and pie charts, spread
sheets, organization charts.
Colors simulate computer display screen.*	Simulate Display
Graphic arts applications; colors simulate a printing	SWOP Press
press standard.	Euroscale Press
	Commercial Press
Turn off all color corrections.	None
Use PANTONE charts.
Print in gray scale.	Monochrome
Use printer’s current color default.	Use Printer Setting
Use Adobe’s standard color conversions.	Refer to the printer’s
	CD-ROM for downloadable
	utility files.

*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 the Tektronix web site for more information.

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