Chapter 1: Fiery Color Management; Managing Color On The Fiery - Xerox DocuColor 12 Color Manual

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1-1 Managing color on the Fiery

Chapter 1:
Fiery Color
Management
The first part of this chapter describes the options available from the
color management system and explains how to customize the color settings for your
particular needs. It provides descriptions of the preset ColorWise default settings and
covers additional options for users who need to customize ColorWise.
Beginning on page 1-14 is a detailed explanation of what a
printer driver does, as well as information on the capabilities of various printer drivers
and instructions for setting color options with the PostScript drivers for Windows and
Mac OS computers.
Managing color on the Fiery
To modify the Fiery's printing behavior, do any of the following:
• Select ColorWise options for an individual print job using menus that appear in the
printer driver.
• Select most ColorWise options as server defaults from the Color Setup application
in ColorWise Pro Tools (see
from the Control Panel, as described in the
apply to all subsequent print jobs unless you override them.
• Select some ColorWise options, particularly default
calibration options, from ColorWise Pro Tools. These options include default
Simulation Profile (see page
Driver as (see page 3-8), default Source Profile (see
(see page 1-8), and associated calibration set (see
Applications can generate color data for the Fiery in many different
The most common type of color data produced from office applications is RGB, while
prepress applications generally produce CMYK data. Desktop applications can also
generate spot colors, such as PANTONE colors. To complicate matters, a single page
may contain a mix of RGB, CMYK, and spot colors. The Fiery lets users control the
printing of these mixed-color documents with features that apply specifically to RGB,
CMYK, or spot color data.
page 3-37). Defaults can also be set from Fiery Setup or
Configuration
ICC profile
1-9), Simulation Method (see
page
page 2-4).
ColorWise
PostScript Level 2 or 3
Guide. These defaults will
settings and
page 1-10), Appear in
1-7), RGB Separation
color spaces.