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270 Chapter 26:
Practical Hands-On Color Management
These settings will provide good default p
choose the proper output profile when printing to an EDGE or MAXX 2. These settings also wil
allow you to import images such as TIF, BMP, and JPG files without having the Source Profile
dialog box pop up after choosing the file name.
Installing Gerber Device Profiles using the P
OMEGA 2.5 or newer includes a Gerber Profile Library CD. You must install new
profiles or reinstall previously removed profiles for Gerber imaging devices using the Gerber
Device Profile Manager and the Profile Library CD. Profiles are no longer automatically
installed during OMEGA installation.
To install ICC device profiles
1 Insert the Gerber Profile Lib
2 Right-click the Gerber Tray icon and select the Device Profile M
Add or Delete Printer dialog box, click the Profile Manager.
3
When the Device Profile Manager opens, click F1 and follow
"Installing Gerber device profiles using the Profile Manager."
Applying color profiles du
You may apply an Image Source Profile to image fil
Color Management dialog box, choose Always Ask in the CMYK, RGB or Grayscale boxes to
display the Select Source Colorspace Profile dialog box when the image is imported.
♦ CMYK - (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black) is a subtractive color space use
color printing. GERBER EDGE and GERBER MAXX, as well as most paper printers,
use CMYK to create color images. Colors are assigned using values between 0 and
100%. Lighter colors are defined by lower percentages; darker colors use higher
percentages. One hundred percent of cyan, magenta, and yellow yields black and 0%
of each color yields white. In actuality, mixing 100% of cyan, magenta, and yellow ink
yields a brownish-black so pure black ink (K) is used to print true black and to add
density to the printed image.
♦ RGB – RGB (red, green, and bl
monitors, televisions, and scanners. The red, green, and blue components are
measured in a range of 0 to 255. When red, green, and blue have a value of 255
result is white. When the value of red, green, and blue is 0, the result is black. Color
are created using different combinations of the three colors.
♦ Grayscale – Grayscale is a series of tones from black to white
grayscale image is a black and white image with more than one bit of information,
typically it is an 8-bit image with 256 levels of tone.
T he Image Source Profile that you select during import applie
If you do not choose Always Ask, the default Image Source Profile will be applied automatically
when the image file is imported.
Note: If you choose a color
to choose a different profile.
rofiles for on-screen viewing and will automatically
rary CD into the CD-ROM drive.
ring import
es as they are imported into OMEGA. In the
ue) is an additive color space used in computer
profile that OMEGA can not handle, a message displays asking you
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