Color Swatch Utility; Operations Environment; Printing Rgb Color Samples - Oki C931 User Manual

Matching Colors Using Utilities

Color Swatch Utility

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Operations environment

The color swatch utility is a utility for using the
device to print RGB color samples. By viewing
the printed color samples, you can check which
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RGB values should be specified using the
application to print the desired colors.
Note
– Cannot be used by Macintosh.
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– The color swatch utility is installed together with the
printer drivers.

Printing RGB color samples

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Print sample colors.
(1)
Select [Start]>[All Programs]>
[OKI Data]>[Color Swatch
Utility]>[Color Swatch Utility] to
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start the color swatch utility.
(2)
Click the [Print] button.
(3)
Select the device.
(4)
Click [OK] or [Print].
3 pages of color samples will be printed.
(Samples)
Color
block
Color
values
R: 255
G: 203
B: 220
Memo
z The RGB values displayed below the color block
denote the proportions (0 to 255) of the R (red),
G (green), and B (blue) colors in the color block.
(5)
Select the color to be printed from
the printed color samples, and note
down the printed RGB value.
Memo
z If there are no colors in the color samples that
you want to print, customize the color samples
using the following procedure.
(6)
Click the [Switch] button to switch
to custom color samples.
(7)
Click the [Advanced] button to
display the [Edit Custom Color
Swatch] dialog box.
(8)
Adjust the three bars until the
desired colors are displayed in the
monitor window, and click [Close].
z Hue: Changes the hue. 0 denotes red, and to
increase the value, rotate once towards the
green direction.
z Saturation: Changes the vividness. The greater
the saturation the more vivid, and the lower the
saturation, the darker (grayer) the result.
z Brightness: Changes the darkness. If the
brightness is at maximum (100%), the image
turns white, and at its darkest (0%), the image
turns black.
Brightness 0
(9)
Click the [Print] button.
(10)
Select the device.
(11)
Click [OK] or [Print].
1 page will be printed by the device.
(12)
If the desired color cannot be found
in the color samples, repeat Steps
(6) to (11).
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Increase
0
Saturation 100
Saturation 0
Brightness 100