Xerox manual Process colours, DocuColor 2000 series design guide

Process colours

Process colours are produced by printing overlapping screens of cyan, magenta, yellow and black. Since the DocuColor 2045 and 2060 do not print “spot” colour like an offset press, you have the ability to mix and blend variations of CMYK to create virtually limitless colour palettes. Refer to Appendix 3 for examples of some of the CMYK colours the DocuColor 2045 and 2060 can produce.

C C, M C, M, Y C, M, Y, K

Even though the DocuColor 2045 and 2060 cannot run spot colours, they can convert Pantone colours into CMYK process colours on the fly during the RIP stage. Both the Fiery and Creo RIPs will convert Pantone colours into process colours, but their conversion techniques are slightly different. Please refer to Appendix 4 for examples of how the Pantone colours are reproduced on the DocuColor 2045 and 2060.

The DocuColor 2045 and 2060 can match about 75% of all Pantone colours to within a Delta-E (DE) of 5. DE is a scientific measurement of colour difference with a DE of 0 being a perfect match. For colour matching, a DE of 5 is acceptable, but anything greater than 5 is usually rejected as being an unsatisfactory match. Offset presses using process colours can generally match no more than 50% of Pantone colours.

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