APPENDIX 1:
Microsoft Office colour charts
All Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, etc.) work in the RGB colour space. The RGB gamut is much broader than the gamut of a process colour printer or press. Consequently, many colours available in Microsoft Office applications cannot be reproduced on a process colour device.
A common area of discontent with customers who use Microsoft Office applications is the issue of colours looking different on their display and on the printed page, ie, the conversion from RGB colours to CMYK colours. They usually do not understand colour and how it is produced and/or reproduced.. A typical complaint is: "My PowerPoint background is blue – why is it printing as purple?"
Microsoft Office applications utilise a common colour palette across all applications. It consists of a basic standard palette of 40 colours and an extended standard palette of 143 colours (including a range of greys). Custom colours are also available (use the charts in Appendix 2 – RGB colour charts – for examples of the custom colours available).
These palettes are shown below and can be used as a guide to how the Microsoft Office colours are reproduced on the DocuColor 2060. Due to differences between RIPs and their colour conversion algorithms, individual DocuColor 2060 digital colour presses, machine
Therefore it’s important that you make sure you print these charts on your DocuColor 2060, utilising your RIP, settings, calibration and paper to give to clients for colour selection and matching.
Encourage your customers to have a copy of these charts near their computer so that they can see how the colours they select in their application will be reproduced on the DocuColor 2060.
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