Color Print Matching; Factors That Affect The Appearance Of Prints - Oki ES3037 User Manual

COLOR PRINT MATCHING

The install utility provides a color profile for your printer. In general,
using the OKI Color Matching settings will provide reasonable default
settings that produce good results for most documents.
Many applications have their own color settings and these may
override the settings in the printer driver. Please refer to the
documentation for your software application for details on how that
particular program's color management functions.

Factors that affect the appearance of prints

If you wish to manually adjust the color settings in your printer driver,
please be aware that color reproduction is a complex topic, and there
are many factors to take into consideration. Some of the most
important factors are listed below.
Differences between the range of colors a monitor or printer
can reproduce
• Neither a printer nor a monitor is capable of reproducing the
full range of colors visible to the human eye. Each device is
restricted to a certain range of colors. Additionally, a printer
cannot reproduce all of the colors displayed on a monitor and
vice versa.
• Both devices use very different technologies to represent
color. A monitor uses Red, Green and Blue (RGB) phosphors
(or LCDs), a printer uses Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black
(CMYK) toner or ink.
• A monitor can display very vivid colors such as intense reds
and blues and these cannot be easily produced on any
printer using toner or ink. Similarly, there are certain colors,
(some yellows, for example), that can be printed, but cannot
be displayed accurately on a monitor. This disparity between
monitors and printers is often the main reason that printed
colors do not match the colors displayed on screen.
Viewing conditions
A print can look very different under different lighting conditions.
For example, the colors in a print may look different when viewed
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