Chapter 5: Working With Color In Applications; Working With Color - Canon ColorPASS-Z5000 Color Manual

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5-1 Working with color

Chapter 5:
Working
with Color in
Applications
This chapter provides guidelines for defining colors in your documents to produce the
results you want. The following topics are covered:
• Factors affecting how you work with color
• Choosing colors in applications that rely on GDI or QuickDraw to communicate
data to the printer driver, such as presentation applications and word processing
programs
• Choosing colors in applications that have the ability to write their own PostScript,
such as some page-layout programs, illustration programs, and pixel-editing
applications
Working with color
The two main factors that influence how you work with color in the creation of
documents are the application you use and the final print device. Applications vary in
the methods they provide for choosing colors and in the way they transmit color data
to the print device.
• such as presentation software, spreadsheets, and word processing
Office applications
programs use the RGB color model. They typically transmit only RGB data to the
print device.
•
Illustration applications
transmit only CMYK data to the print device.
•
Pixel-editing applications
transmit both RGB and CMYK data to the print device.
The type of printing you plan for the document—short-run color printing on the
ColorPASS versus color proofing for eventual printing on an offset press—determines
the way you define colors as well as the print option settings you choose.
• For short-run color printing on the ColorPASS, use any type of application and
define colors in either RGB or CMYK. If your application supports it, you can also
choose colors from the PANTONE color library. Placed images may be limited to
the RGB color space. Choose the appropriate settings for print options affecting
color output (see page 1-1).
use both the RGB and CMYK color models but typically
use both the RGB and CMYK color models. They also