Spot Color Matching - Canon ColorPASS-Z5000 Color Manual

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1-13 Managing color on the ColorPASS

Spot Color Matching

The Spot Color Matching option provides automatic matching of PANTONE colors
with their best CMYK equivalents.
• —The ColorPASS uses its built-in table to generate the closest CMYK matches of
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PANTONE colors your copier can produce. (New tables are generated when you
add new output profiles.)
• —The ColorPASS uses the CMYK equivalents defined by your application to
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print PANTONE colors.
For jobs that include PANTONE spot colors, set Spot Color Matching to On unless
you are printing press simulations. In that case, set Spot Color Matching to Off and
choose the appropriate CMYK Simulation setting (see page 1-8).
You can use the Spot Color Matching option only when printing composites,
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not when printing separations.
Spot Color Matching and the PANTONE Coated Color Reference
The PANTONE Coated Color Reference (described on page 5-7) prints differently
depending on the Spot Color Matching setting.
• —The ColorPASS uses its built-in table to generate the best matches of the
On
PANTONE colors that your copier can produce. The PANTONE number is
printed below each swatch.
• —The ColorPASS prints swatches using the CMYK values recommended by
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Pantone (and used by applications that provide PANTONE color libraries). The
CMYK values used to generate the color, as well as the PANTONE number of the
color, are printed below each swatch. These CMYK values are printed through the
selected CMYK Simulation and Output Profile settings.