Managing color, Color tools overview | Xerox CX manual

7	Managing color

Color tools overview

The CX print server provides you with a number of tools and options that enable you to adjust and improve the color quality in your jobs.

The following tools are available:

●Profile Manager

●Spot Color Editor

●Gradation Tool

●Calibration table manager

●Media and Color Manager

Managing color and profiles

A profile is a file that describes how a particular device reproduces color. It represents the colorimetric behavior of a given device for known media and imaging parameters (such as substrate/paper stock, resolution, and inks). Profiles are used to reproduce color from one device’s color space to another device's color space in a consistent manner. They provide the necessary information to convert color data between device-dependent color spaces and device-independent color spaces. You use profiles to color manage your system.

Color management is a series of steps taken to ensure that colors are accurate and repeatable when transferred from one device to another. Color management helps us reproduce the color conceived by a graphic artist or photographer as closely as possible on a monitor, a proof, or a press sheet. Color management enables accurate and repeatable color reproduction, within each device’s color capability, throughout the entire workflow.

Before you can print a color document, the color data in it must be converted to the gamut of the printer. Whether performed by the CX print server or a host-based CMS, the process of converting color data for a printer is the same: the CMS interprets RGB object data according to a specified source profile and adjusts both RGB and CMYK data according to a specified output profile, also called a destination profile by some color management systems.

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Xerox CX manual Color tools overview, Managing color and profiles

Contents

Version Page Copyright Page Contents Managing jobs Variable data printing jobs Glossary 153 Printing this guide Getting started Hardware and software components System overviewSupported formats EPS Overview of the Workspace Getting started Turning on the CX print server Requirements Turning off the CX print server Printing Methods Setting up yourSetting up your computer overview Computer for printing SpoolStore Print Driver softwareProcessStore ProcessPrint Adding a network printer to your Windows computer Setting up printing on a Windows computerPrinter Tasks area, select Add a printer Loading the Print Driver software for the first time Enable enhanced user interface, list select offDeactivating the Print Driver software Downloading fonts DEXUninstaller.exeDEXUninstaller.exe, and select Run as Administrator Removing the Print Driver software Click Continue Setting up printing in Mac OSInstalling the Print Driver software in Mac OS Click Change Install Location Click Utility Defining a printer with the Print Driver software in Mac OS Removing the Print Driver software Calibration overview Calibration Calibration Requirements Click Calibrate Page Order they appear in the icons Cyan Magenta Yellow Black See also Mapping jobs to calibration tables Calibration Printing a file to the CX print server Using a hot folder to printPrinting a file Windows and Mac OS Password protect jobs Secure printing overview on Preferences window on Printing a file in Windows and Mac OS Click Import Printing from the colorServer Importing and printing a job Editing a job overview Next Moving a page in a jobDeleting a page from a job Merging one or more pages into a job Click Merge Jobs Replacing pages Finding the Cmyk values of a specific area Verifying the content of the job Preflight Report Preflight CheckPage Performing a preflight check Spot Colors Viewing and printing a preflight reportPreflight Report window HiRes Proofing the job using color sets Corporate documents Assigning a color set to your jobPhotos of people Outdoor photos Secure printing overview Archival and retrieval of jobs Managing jobsArchiving a job Click Retrieve Forwarding a job to another CX print serverRetrieving a job From the File menu, select Retrieve from archive Resubmitting a job Duplicating jobsPrinting copies of a job Ensuring proper billing Job ReportsAccounting Viewer overview Job Report overview Printing a job in black and white InSite jobsCmyk area, select Preserve black color Job Exporting a job as an InSite jobPage Managing jobs Color tools overview Managing colorManaging color and profiles Creating a destination profile Managing color and profiles Click Create Profile Importing a source profile Importing a destination profileResource list, select Profile Manager Select Source Profile tab Mapping media using the Media and Color Manager tool Resource Center, select Media and Color Manager Calibrations window Managing calibration tablesCalibration table list Output Density Info DataProperties Input % Adding an entry to a calibration tableInfo Graph Separations Resource list, select Calibrations Managing spot colors Managing color Adding a spot color Spot dictionary list, select Custom Dictionary Printing a spot color chartEditing a spot color Deleting a spot color Click Test Print Spot color variations overview Selecting a spot color variation From the Tools menu, select Spot Color Editor Printing a spot color variation Click Print Variations Protecting specific spot colors Defining a gray color as a spot color Defining an RGB color as a spot color Defining a Cmyk color as a spot color Color adjustment with the Gradation Tool Creating a new gradation table Previewing a job Editing a gradation table Exposure and color cast Correcting an image using Photo Touch-up Jpeg artifacts Image noiseShadows and highlights Red-eye Managing color Imposition methods Print using impositionProduction workflows Imposition overview Previewing an imposition layout Imposition layout Preview window Conflict indications Printing a business card job For Trim Size, select Custom Imposition Method list, select Step & Repeat Click Spacing & Marks Printing a saddle stitch job Imposition Template Builder overview Imposition Template Builder ToolCreating an imposition template From the Tools menu, select Imposition Template Builder Imposition template viewer windowImposition method Saddle Stitch Columns Rows Binding Left Both Editing an imposition template Select the Apply changes to front and back check box Adding exceptions to your job Print with exceptionsSimulating a job with your template Click Save or Submit Dynamic page exceptions and setpagedevice commandsDeleting exceptions from your job Click Advanced Options Select the Support dynamic page exceptions check box Printing dynamic page exceptions Orientation Tabs plug-in overview Tabs plug-in windowTabs Size Type Length TextTop Offset Bottom Offset Underline ColorBold Italic Direction Text on both sides Creating tabs Page Changing the location of a tab Managing tabs Removing a page or tab from the file Saving the tab settingsReplacing a page with a tab Inserting a tab before or after a specific Deleting saved tab settings About VDP document formats Variable data printingJobs Variable Data Printing jobs Reusable Elements About Variable Print SpecificationBooklet Sub-job Selecting to Cache Global VDP Elements Select General DefaultsManaging VDP elements About Ppml Retrieving VDP elements Archiving VDP elementsResource list, select Cached VDP Elements Deleting VDP Elements 100 Print tab in the Job Parameters window Job parameters Layout Print tab in the Job Parameters window 103 Imposition tab in the Job Parameters window Set and apply imposition settings to your job Imposition tab in the Job Parameters window 105 106 Imposition overview on Quality tab in the Job Parameters window Quality tab in the Job Parameters window 109 Cmyk Color tab in the Job Parameters window Color tab in the Job Parameters window 111 112 Color tab in the Job Parameters window 113 Cmyk RGB Photo touch-up tab in the Job Parameters window Finishing tab in the Job Parameters window Apply these settings to specify how to finish your job Exceptions tab in the Job Parameters window Services tab in the Job Parameters window Services tab in the Job Parameters window 119 APR/OPI Services tab in the Job Parameters window 121 122 Preferences window Setting up your color Server Processed Preferences window 125 Password protect jobs on page 24 Secure printing overview on Virtual printers Setting up a virtual printerAdding and editing a virtual printer Backing up the configuration Maintaining your settingsRemoving a virtual printer Click Start Restore Restoring the configurationPreferences window, select Configuration Backup Configuration backup area, click Start Backup Tools for maintaining your system Activating remote tools Working with color server tools on your computerCreo Remote Site Manager Remote Site Manager overview Installing the Remote Site Manager in Windows Adding Creo color servers to the Remote Site Manager Viewing the printer status Connecting to the workspace from your computerRemote Workspace overview Connecting to the Web Center Using the Web CenterOverview of the Web Center Office Hot Folder tool Installing the Office Hot Folder tool Ppt Doc Xls Pub Using the Office Hot Folder tool to printCreating a hot folder Click Create HF Creo Color Server Job Ticket software Language settingsCreo Color Server Job Ticket overview Creating a job ticket in Windows Creating and managing job ticketsDouble-click the CreoColorServerJobTicket.exe file Loading job parameters from a selected server From the Tools menu, select Use JT Settings FromSubmitting a job ticket for printing Creator tool Easy VDP File Creator tool 142 Selecting an Easy VDP File Creator template Click Continue to add data records Next Adding records manually to your variable data job Adding records from a database to your variable data job Creating and printing the variable data job 148 Job History window Troubleshooting Handling alerts and frozen jobs Alerts window Aborting a jobResume printing Click Print List Printing system messages Glossary Brisque Imposition Job BookletBounding box Brightness Click charge BrisqueCache Calibration curve Color gamut Color castColor channel Color correction Color set Color match verbColor profile Color rendering dictionary CRD Creep Composite modeContrast Conventional screening Densitometer CT file formatDatabase DCS desktop color separation Device-independent color space DensityDensity range Device Dot gain Device profileDevice type Dot area Gravure printing Gray component replacement GCRFrequency-modulated FM screening Frozen job Imposition Job Job flow GrayscaleHalftone screen Head-to-head Lookup table LUT Job ticket template JTTLine work Long-edge first LEF New line work NLW file format LW file formatNormalize PPD PostScript Printer Description PSImage Pre-separated file Printer description file PriorityProcess Process colors RTP ready-to-print job Relative colorimetricRender Rich black Short-edge first SEF Screen angleShadows Sheet Spot color Smooth scalingSource profile Spine trim size Tonal calibration Stochastic screeningSubstrate Tint Vector drawing Variable print specificationTrapping Variable information VI job 172 Index Storage area 5 Supported formats 2 system messages