Chapter 1: Fiery X3E Color Management; Managing Color On The Fiery X3E - Fiery KM-C2230 Color Manual

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1-1 Managing color on the Fiery X3e

Chapter 1:
Fiery X3e Color
Management
The following sections describe the options available from the
management system and explains how to customize the color settings for your
particular needs. They provide descriptions of the preset ColorWise default settings
and cover additional options for users who need to customize ColorWise.
For information on PostScript
also contains information on the capabilities of printer drivers and instructions for
setting color options with the PostScript drivers for Windows and Mac OS computers.
Many of the color management options described in this chapter are only
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available with the PostScript driver, not the PCL driver.
Managing color on the Fiery X3e
To modify Fiery X3e 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
Setup, as described in the
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
Appear in Driver as (see
Separation (see page 1-15), and associated calibration set (see
Applications can generate color data for the Fiery X3e in many different
The most common type of color data produced from
while prepress applications generally produce
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 X3e allows users
Level 2 or 3 printer drivers, see
page 3-35). Defaults can also be set from Fiery X3e
Configuration Guide. These defaults will apply to all
1-12), CMYK Simulation Method (see
page 3-8), default Source Profile (see
CMYK
ColorWise color
page 1-17. The section
ICC profile settings and
page 1-14),
page 1-11), RGB
page 2-4).
color spaces.
office applications is RGB,
data. Desktop applications can